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  • 12:46, 8 August 2024 2a01:cb06:4d9:7200:154:cffb:d5:4374 talk created page On Downward Causality (Created page with "* The peak’s inaccessibility turns out to have nothing to do with how anyone might try to get up to it; it has to do with an inherent instability belonging to the summit itself * upside-down reasoning from a would-be theorem downwards, rather than from axioms upwards, and in particular, reasoning from a hidden meaning of the would-be theorem, rather than from its surface-level claim about numbers. * There are many true statements that are not provable. * A creature tha...")
  • 12:33, 8 August 2024 2a01:cb06:4d9:7200:154:cffb:d5:4374 talk created page How Analogy Makes Meaning (linz rh)
  • 12:25, 8 August 2024 2a01:cb06:4d9:7200:154:cffb:d5:4374 talk created page Godel’s Quintessential Strange Loop (Created page with "* Mathematicians see their pristine, abstract world as the antithesis to the random, accident-filled physical world we all inhabit. * In mathematics, where there’s a pattern, there’s a reason. * What a recursive definition does, albeit implicitly, is to divide the entire set of integers into members and non-members of the club. * Godel’s formula is making a claim about itself.")
  • 12:22, 8 August 2024 2a01:cb06:4d9:7200:154:cffb:d5:4374 talk created page Embarking on a Strange-Loop Safari (Created page with "* A strange loop is a paradoxical level-crossing feedback loop.")
  • 10:10, 8 August 2024 2a01:cb06:4d9:7200:154:cffb:d5:4374 talk created page The Epi Phenomenon (Created page with "* Thanks to the funneling-down processes of perception, which will lead eventually - in a matter of milliseconds - to the activation of certain discrete symbols in its brain, an animal can relate intimately and reliably to its physical environment. * Because an animal’s internal mirroring of the world must be highly reliable, its mirroring of the world via its private cache of symbols becomes an unquestioned pillar of stability. The things and patterns it perceives are...")
  • 08:46, 8 August 2024 2a01:cb06:4d9:7200:154:cffb:d5:4374 talk created page Of Selves and Symbols (Created page with "* In the case of a being struggling to survive, the one thing that is always in its environment is… itself. * The camera, rather than being bolted onto its TV set is attached to it by a short leash, giving rise to a truncated corridor, like pet animals or even young children are slightly self-aware * When the leash is sufficiently long and flexible that the video camera can point straight at the center of the screen, we can have an endless corridor, which is far richer...")
  • 08:25, 8 August 2024 2a01:cb06:4d9:7200:154:cffb:d5:4374 talk created page On Video Feedback (Created page with "* truncated corridor, endless corridor, helical corridor. * An emergent phenomenon somehow emerges quite naturally and automatically from rigid rules operating at a lower, more basic level, but exactly how that emergence happens is not at all clear to the observer. * The amazing visual universe discovered around 1980 by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. * It is the circularity - the loopiness - of the system that brings these patterns into existence and makes them persist...")
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