Maybe the most important one: Robert Sapolsky's Human Behavioral Biology (25 lectures) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199 … Are Humans Just Another Primate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZAL64E0DI … Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worsthttps://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst-ebook/dp/B01IAUGC5S/ …
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John Sundman interviews George Church: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1InijwMuYnQ … Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRbaGY0eOk … Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuGSqOrHSVo … Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dWykTaMCU … (esp. Part 3, such as https://twitter.com/joekina/status/949546717162094593 …)
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Jing 靖源 @joekina“If you have enough imagination, you can think of many possible futures. You can think of one where everybody from birth is taught a new language, not English, but something that's very based on the facts of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuGSqOrHSVo&t=8m17s …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Finally, a totally different perspective from a religious ultimate nerd: Donald E. Knuth's Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About https://www.cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/things.html … (esp. Lecture 2, 5, 6) Donald Knuth - Giving a lecture series on science and religion at MIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ElGBFqjAc …pic.twitter.com/43KOJOmy0U
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Oh, btw, this one is also very important (and related to AI): “. . . one of the major limitations on human performance is not bias, it is just noise, . . . in fact most of the errors that people make are better viewed as random noise” (4m:43s)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbj_NsgNe7A&t=4m43s …
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Not only that (phenomenal) consciousness is a kind of memory, very often it is consisted of false memories, I think.
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And this one (5m52s) “for me psychologically you feel you know things when you can't imagine alternatives. So when you have a belief & alternatives seem unimaginable then you feel you know, but it's relatively easy to get into that state without evidence.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWWlcaHXxZs&t=5m52s …
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I think all of this can be summarized into: “We can’t learn to see until we realize and admit that we are blind!” https://www.dropbox.com/s/l4qnf40gksapsrl/Alan%20Kay%20-%20How%20to%20Invent%20the%20Future.pdf …pic.twitter.com/AQsNQyFAot
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(1/2) “We sample with our eyes a very narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum—basically, one octave out of an infinite keyboard that, moreover, is not just discrete notes but a continuum. We have a reliable, well-tested theory of what light is: electromagnetic radiation.
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We have a very impoverished color space due to absence of impact of most radiation on our observation, but we have a pretty accurate mesoscopic physics space. Within certain constraints of speed, complexity and memory, our brains seem to be fully universal function approximators.
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It somehow reminds me of Sean Carroll's claim that "the laws underlying the physics of everyday life are completely understood" ( http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/04/the-world-of-everyday-experience-in-one-equation/ … ), according to your current understanding, how much confidence would you give to this claim?
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I think that is correct, in the sense that we appear to know all the relevant regularities, even if we did not fully integrate them into unified theories. The specifications for such theories are sufficiently constrained.
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It also reminds me of this paper (I've read it once, but not yet fully understood it): Emergence, causation and storytelling: condensed matter physics and the limitations of the human mind https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06845 pic.twitter.com/5TPHTNLPg9
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