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The river meanders because it can’t think. —RICHARD KENNEY
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Thoughts and memories are associatively linked, and again, random thoughts never really occur.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
I’m wondering if maybe there’s a quantum element to what’s happening.”
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
“And yet, the ‘creative’ half of the title suggests an impulse rather than Enlightenment perspicuity motivates the writer and shapes the writing.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
What is a person? It can't just be the body they occupy, which can change drastically without any resulting controversy over identity. If it's what we call personality, then what is personality? If personality is a kind of involuntary unconscious performance, there still has to be an underlying consistency that creates predictability, not necessari
... See moreSergio De La Pava • Every Arc Bends Its Radian
The artificial ego-entity that the world (and Dostoyevsky himself perhaps) believes to be Dostoevsky is discovering a deeper, wider, smarter, braver personage that has traveled across leagues and eons to reach this present moment and will continue its passage long after "Dostoyevsky" is gone. The artist himself is disposable. What endures
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium? What is the meaning of the word "1"?
Achilles and Tortoise engage in a philosophical dialogue exploring concepts of free will, identity, and consciousness within a metaphorical framework of marbles and symmballs in a careenium, illustrating complex mental processes.
legacy.cs.indiana.edu“But what of the idea that the self is not a unified being, and there may exist within us several realms of consciousness? . . . From our [split-brain] studies the new idea emerges that there are literally several selves, and they do not necessarily ‘converse’ with each other internally.”