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That old Brain vs Mind debate updated. You’ll know I’ve been following “Quantum Information Processing” for the past couple of years, well, “neurophilosophy” (previous post) got me thinking. Is it a “one” ? Is it a “zero” ? Yes its a Qubit I’ve been corresponding with Peter Marcer at the British Computer Society – Cybernetic … Continue reading “That old Brain vs Mind debate updated with Qubits”

My axioms were so clean-hewn, The joins of ‘thus’ and ‘therefore’ neat – But, I admit Life would not fit Between straight lines And all the cornflowers said was ‘blue,’ All summer long, so blue. So when the sea came in and with one wave Threatened to wash my edifice away – I let it. … Continue reading “Cornflowers – Too Blue for Logic”

String Theory of Semiology ! Ostensibly a hoax originating in France (via Jorn), full of gobbledygook pseudo-science linking quantum gravity and string theory with information models. The motive was probably originally to ridicule quantum information theories, but it succeeded in “fooling” learned publishing referees and escaped into the world as a serious scientific paper. However … Continue reading “String Theory of Semiology”

Evolutionary psychology just is what happens to us. “Evolutionary Psychology” as a self-identified political “ought” interpretation of evolutionary reality and the political reaction to brand it pejoratively as “EvoPsych” are just that – identitarian political movements, not to be confused with reality. I said as much just in the title of the first long piece … Continue reading “Evolutionary Psychology – Again?”

I keep falling foul of my use of the word “computation” being taken as the formal “machine” kind intended by Turing, algorithmic at the level of interest with all the corollaries of computability and halting/decidability and Gödelian incompleteness. I just use it to mean processing (inc. communication) of information quite generally – however it’s done, … Continue reading “A Time for Reckoning?”

Preamble: I was left with a pretty negative view of Larry Krauss after his collaborations with Richard Dawkins – “The Unbelievers” (2013) and Dawkins breathless afterword to Krauss “A Universe From Nothing – Why is there something rather than nothing?” (2012) In that recommendation – oft repeated in public sessions since – Dawkins concluded “The … Continue reading “Krauss Revisited – still haunted by Copernicus?”