Marvin Minsky's ALIENABLE RIGHTS https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Alienable%20Rights.html … THE SOCIETY OF MIND book and lectures: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/ … https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61E-vNcDV0w5xpsIBYNJDkU …
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Sydney Brenner's 4-Day lectures (with Terrence Sejnowski): Day 1, 26 Oct '17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqnBk5mnnA … Day 2, 27 Oct '17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB7gQDZR660 … Day 3, 30 Oct '17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-PYkjCKl5U … Day 4, 31 Oct '17https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K1vyvczXQ …
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Talks by Alan Kay http://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay … Our Human Condition "From Space" by Alan Kay http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2003001_human_cond.pdf …
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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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Yes, of course. We don't see what's on our retinas. We see the dream generated by our neocortex, which gets updated to predict the noisy samples delivered by our retina as a well as possible.
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