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A Tale of Two Selves
Why is the human race, with its superior intellectual capacity when compared to its most recent primate ancestry on the phylogenetic tree, at the same time so unstable, so unpredictable, and so neurotic, and so often acting against its own … Continue reading
Posted in People, Politics & Culture
Tagged abstraction and conceptualization, AI, Artificial Intelligence, cortex, evolution, human cortex, human endeavour, instinctive self, Knowledge Doubling Curve, neocortex, neuroanatomy, phylogenetic tree, rational self, self-destructive behaviour
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The Limits of Our World
Given that there are limitations to what we can achieve with our bodies in a physical sense – e.g., how high we can jump, or how fast we can run – it seems reasonable to think there are also limits … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Science & Religion
Tagged human cortex, intellect, limits of the world, sentiency, the world
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