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Geoffrey Irving

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1. Your brain already works like this. 2. Guess: Some fraction of your "experiences" are predictions that ended up close enough to what actually happened that your brain never overwrote the details.

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@andy_matuschak

· Jan 21, 2018

Playing with a strange pen. The ink stretches backwards into the past and forwards into possible futures. The two sides make a strange loop: the future ink influences how I draw, altering the future's past ink…

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That’s very interesting: it *does* feel like my brain works like this! This pen feels like… working with other people’s brains?

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It feels different because your brain is also good at claiming (incorrectly) that it's a single coherent entity.

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Dynamical systems is all the rage:

Feynman Machine vs Noisy Lorenz Attractor in Two Minutes

The noisy Lorenz attractor (derived from Hamilton, Berry & Sauer, 2016 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05414) is a challenging task for online temporal learning...

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