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Carlo Rovelli, Relational QM, and Nondualism

Carlo Rovelli, Relational QM, and Nondualism

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:June 25, 2021
  • Post category:nonduality/philosophy/physics/Uncategorized

I recently finished Carlo Rovelli's most recent book, Helgoland, and greatly enjoyed it. The core of the book is about the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, which he has helped…

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Consciousness, Collapse, and MWI

Consciousness, Collapse, and MWI

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:April 6, 2021
  • Post category:consciousness/nonduality/philosophy/physics

I recently read Beyond Biocentrism by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman. It's a book that kept popping up in recent years so I finally checked it out from the public…

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What Should AI Be Doing?

What Should AI Be Doing?

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:May 22, 2020
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/nonduality/philosophy

I recently finished Brian Cantwell Smith's excellent book The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment. It's a bit different from other recent popular books on AI, as it is…

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Marshall Davis on Christian and Taoist Non-Duality

Marshall Davis on Christian and Taoist Non-Duality

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:March 27, 2020
  • Post category:nonduality/philosophy/religion

I haven't been a Christian since I was a teenager. I grew up in a non-denominational protestant family, but my parents were hippies and, when I was young, organized religion…

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Transformative Experience and Skepticism

Transformative Experience and Skepticism

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:March 26, 2020
  • Post category:philosophy/religion

I previously posted about this discussion between Sean Carroll and LA Paul. It's very fascinating, and is basically about the difficulty of making choices when the choice that is made…

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Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI

Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:March 5, 2020
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/philosophy/religion

I recently finished Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, and I highly recommend it. A lot has been written in the past 5-10 years…

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Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 9, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind

Chapter 3 of Artificial You has three basic purposes: Explaining why AI might develop in such a way that superintelligent AIs are not conscious. Explaining that we might need to…

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The Mindless Hypothesis

The Mindless Hypothesis

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 23, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/language/philosophy/philosophy of mind

In the previous post, I talked about Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism about the Internal World (PDF). In that post, I focused on the first part of the paper, and in…

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Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World

Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 20, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind

I recently read Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism About the Internal World (PDF warning), and in this post I want to focus on the first part of the paper, where he…

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Machines and Understanding

Machines and Understanding

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 7, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind

This recent blog post by Thomas Dietterich has received much well-deserved attention. And while the title What does it mean for a machine to "understand"? sounds like a philosophical work,…

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