What's something that strikes you as very unusual that very smart people are working on?
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Another nice example: David Glanzman and others' work on the idea that long-term memories may not be stored in synapses.
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Another good example from the past: Julian Jaynes' outrageous-but-stimulating theory of consciousness.
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Another good example: Cairns-Smith's theory that clay crystals formed an intermediary in the origin of life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Cairns-Smith …
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Homotopy type theory, especially by people who believe ZFC is inconsistent.
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It's a nice example, and I almost listed it (and univalent foundations). But I guess I'm looking for less mainstream / newer ideas.
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Another example from the past is Geoffrey Hinton working on Neural Networks through the 90s and early 2000s.
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And the 80s. And, I believe, part of the 70s. Persistent!
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As I observe how identity is changing in this era of digital devices, digital memory, synthesized memes, I am more convinced of Jayne's model. In fact it's quite clear to me that consciousness is created as a result of childhood interactions with an environment of complex actors.
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An uncomfortable consequence of this is that there is a spectrum of consciousness (or conscious richness) across the species right now, and it will speciate even more in the coming years, as tech & AI bubbles are engineered differently in differing sovereignties.
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That one has a follow up, inverting Jaynes idea, check the works of Iain McGilchrist(e.g. https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI ) & docu by
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That documentary had the, to my knowledge, highest ever average individual contributions of any Kickstarter, ever. By a HUGE margin, too. :)
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