Thursday, May 31, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
MIT AGI: Consciousness (Christof Koch) + comment
YouTube video regards consciousness and agi.
My comment on a portion of the video:
I think when it comes to simulation vs reality, talking about wetness or gravity is not the same as things that emerge from properties of the way information is processed and stored. Either consciousness depends on some physical property, or it is the result of a way to store and process information. If it is the result of certain ways of processing and storing information, it doesn't matter if it is biological or nonbiological, if it is not but instead arises from physical properties those need to be defined.
Monday, May 28, 2018
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Friday, May 25, 2018
RESPONSE TO DETERMINISM DEBUNKED video
RESPONSE:
The problem is "What" is doing the comparing. If it is machines, either random or deterministic, these "MACHINES" or cells, are an internal cause no different than an external rock or push or gun moving you in one direction or another. A computer program can follow algorithms similar to those coded by the genes and implemented in the neural tissue, able to learn and think.
There is nothing to preclude the possible existence of agi, which would be a being able to debate.
There are individuals with defects in the neural tissue that significantly increase their probability of deviancy, criminal activity, gambling, etc.
If a person be it by genetic engineering or artificial implant, is made such that they have a high probability of consenting to say X activity, that does not make it a free decision on their part. The inbuild biases, and limitations, in normal humans also make their decisions not free. Doesn't matter if the causal chain is random, deterministic, from natural or artificial sources, in any case there is no true freedom.
True freedom of choice necessitates, an undivisible non-machine agent, but all conscious agents are the product of algorithm following machinery.
PS EDITAGAIN INTERNAL TO THE BRAIN IS STILL 'EXTERNAL' to you as a person in the sense of free will. An implant that causes you to consent to X, does not mean you freely chose X. It is internal to your brain. The various cells and brain regions are no different from natural implants causing each and every one of your actions. And just like an implant, when it comes to the natural tissue, there are biases and limitations that alter your probability of doing any action.
Tumors, Brain damage, or more subtle molecular or wiring differences can lead to serious differences in the probability of different outcomes in different situations. This is entirely out of your control.
PPS
You can think and evaluate, but the process follows internal causal chain of algorithms, and cannot be changed by you. This is without talking about ideas like the "relativity of simultaneity", and eternalism, that say the 'present' is no different from the 'past', and as locked in stone as the past.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Monday, May 21, 2018
Create INCREDIBLE Selections in After Effects with Roto Brush
Cool tool in after effects allows for easily extracting a moving character or object from a video.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Friday, May 18, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Sunday, May 13, 2018
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Friday, May 11, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
comment on youtube video regards aging
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX49TEZMfec
There are trees that live for thousands of years. Neurons of mice transplanted to rats live twice as long, it is believed these are amongst the cells that do not age. In centenarians the fastest dividing cells have like 400~ mutations versus 50~ in a newborn, negligible in a genome of billions of bases. Researchers have hypothesized that neurons do not have an upper limit on lifespan and may in fact be ageless and host dependent for lifespan.
Bowhead whales have nondividing neurons with high metabolism that last for over 200 years of high function. Even with an aging body, the longest lived human is said to have not suffered dementia. It is conceivable that human neurons could last far beyond the human host lifespan, and unless bowhead neurons have substantially superior maintenance, there may be not that much difference in their maintenance mechanisms. The decay of the human brain has been hypothesized to be due to the aging of the dividing support cells, things like the glymphatic system that carries molecular waste away start to fail, and this affects the nonaging cells.
While neurons, even in young individuals, have notable levels of mutations, it appears these cells can handle functioning with these.
Substances like resveratrol are said to activate many of the genes of caloric restriction. They can rescue or extend lifespan in animals with various metabolic disorders, mitochondrial disorders, and afflicted with obesity. In shorter lived animals and organisms, such substances even extend lifespan in normal organisms not afflicted with such. The cause of failure in longer lived animals, some say could be due to the discovered age related NAD decline. This is because the sirtuins are NAD dependent for function.
There are substances that can increase muscle mass, bone growth, and rejuvenate several parameters in an aged tissue like muscle to a more juvenile state. The potential to extend healthspan through pharmaceutical means exist.
A limit exist due to the loss of neurons controlling the autonomous breathing functions. When enough of these neurons have been lost, the probability of spontaneously stopping to breathe in your sleep increases and eventually there comes a point when there's a very real substantial probability you will stop breathing while asleep and the body won't wake you up. A device that detects this, could wake you up, and you could restart breathing with your conscious movement which would kickstart the autonomous system again.
There are trees that live for thousands of years. Neurons of mice transplanted to rats live twice as long, it is believed these are amongst the cells that do not age. In centenarians the fastest dividing cells have like 400~ mutations versus 50~ in a newborn, negligible in a genome of billions of bases. Researchers have hypothesized that neurons do not have an upper limit on lifespan and may in fact be ageless and host dependent for lifespan.
Bowhead whales have nondividing neurons with high metabolism that last for over 200 years of high function. Even with an aging body, the longest lived human is said to have not suffered dementia. It is conceivable that human neurons could last far beyond the human host lifespan, and unless bowhead neurons have substantially superior maintenance, there may be not that much difference in their maintenance mechanisms. The decay of the human brain has been hypothesized to be due to the aging of the dividing support cells, things like the glymphatic system that carries molecular waste away start to fail, and this affects the nonaging cells.
While neurons, even in young individuals, have notable levels of mutations, it appears these cells can handle functioning with these.
Substances like resveratrol are said to activate many of the genes of caloric restriction. They can rescue or extend lifespan in animals with various metabolic disorders, mitochondrial disorders, and afflicted with obesity. In shorter lived animals and organisms, such substances even extend lifespan in normal organisms not afflicted with such. The cause of failure in longer lived animals, some say could be due to the discovered age related NAD decline. This is because the sirtuins are NAD dependent for function.
There are substances that can increase muscle mass, bone growth, and rejuvenate several parameters in an aged tissue like muscle to a more juvenile state. The potential to extend healthspan through pharmaceutical means exist.
A limit exist due to the loss of neurons controlling the autonomous breathing functions. When enough of these neurons have been lost, the probability of spontaneously stopping to breathe in your sleep increases and eventually there comes a point when there's a very real substantial probability you will stop breathing while asleep and the body won't wake you up. A device that detects this, could wake you up, and you could restart breathing with your conscious movement which would kickstart the autonomous system again.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Monday, May 7, 2018
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Friday, May 4, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Post Scarcity Civilizations & Privacy
Comment:
The problem with concentrating the power to bypass all privacy on the government is that it means if there's any probability of the gov. becoming corrupt, it will be unstoppable, unchangeable given such capability. You either have some corrupt individuals abusing their privacy to commit horrors, or you risk putting all entities at risk of forever being subject to horrors.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
High level phenomena and being dependent on the flow of underlying processes
When you exist at a certain level, but processes underneath guide your actions and determine your fate, you're a prisoner of fate. Factors outside your control determine what you can and cannot do, they also determine your decisions, not just what choices are open to you but the very choice itself is determined by the underlying factors.
At the least if it was possible for the loop to be completed by gaining control of all relevant underlying factors, the 'freedom' of the individual could be conceivable. But as it stands, the world, reality it is a prison without exit. Only the illusion of choice hides this reality.
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