“Be “dialectical” just for one minute: imagine a world where there is no point in teaching people things, the process of education is replaced by The Answer (no shade to Allen Iverson). You just… ask for the answers without regard to the process of making answers. Come on. Aren’t you imagining… Hell? Do we just…
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Gregory Bateson
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously: Difference, Repetition, Implicit Cognition, and Gibberish
“Such a situation may be better understood if we consider that concepts with indefinite comprehension are concepts of Nature. As such, they are always in something else: they are not in Nature but in the mind which contemplates it or observes it, and represents it to itself. That is why it is said that Nature…
Attempts at originality will set you drifting off course: process-relational thoughts on AI and copyright
“At issue is a new effort by the US Copyright Office to consider how to apply US copyright law to the nascent AI industry. The matter has triggered impassioned pushback from powerful tech interests who say they must have access to people’s hard work for free, or the future of their industry will be jeopardized….
The Fundamental Unit of Mind is a Single Difference
“…human retinas are hardwired to spot edges and differences. When we look around a room, our retinal ganglion cells fire more strongly when they see borders and contours than when they see the blank middle areas of uniform color. As the information gets bumped up through higher levels of brain cells, those edges yield more…