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I have been following this for a while and have taken the time to understand it in a little detail. While it does not provide the 'answers', it does frame the question of 'what is …

lol

Yes! Not enough people get this. Anonymous is a name for a loose, evolving affiliation of ideas, it is not a specific group of people. It personifies a set of beliefs, a view of th…

I honestly don't think you can make it much simpler. That is not to say it is simple, just that it is by nature not simple. You can dress the concepts up, make them look nice with …

I agree. It would certainly take decades for them to master the technology. It might even take them 50 years. A lot of the knowledge required is implicit in the industry taken as a…

To be fair, I'm pretty sure he had his tongue firmly in his cheek. But point well made. Whenever this point comes up I think of a scene from 'the cube', is it a massive conspiracy …

I suppose the question is: Are there appropriate abstractions which would bring conceptual simplicity to these systems? I find it hard to believe that there is not. A system which …

The question of time is deeper than this. Why is it that your brain or for that matter any physical system is dependent on it's previous configurations? Why is it that there is suc…

I experience this. But my addiction is for information, technical articles, scientific papers in mathematics, physics, machine learning, biology. Now I can do it all on my phone an…

I was thinking along the same lines. What he is asking for is quite close to general AI!

I think this is wrong. Take for instance the task of classifying images. You can train a RBN with backprop (after contrastive divergence alg) to correctly classify images. In the p…

Despite its disjointed nature I found that some interesting notions and feelings made their way out of the text and into my brain. I might even say that it was good. Definitely wor…

Bang on.

I loved the overall site. I'm talking specifically about the text at the very bottom of the page, the small print section.

Ugh, read the small print section. Horrible, designed by committee to attempt to sound like their audience. I sometimes find these quite revealing, although irritating. It shows ho…

Where you say schizophrenia you probably mean split personality disorder. I am not even bothering to re-read your first sentence because of your perpetuation of this horrendous mis…

There really isn't. You're letting your bias influence your opinion. Read the paper, draw your conclusions carefully, I wager you will have to change them.

Damn you beat me to it.

This has occured to me too. Is there some extra dimension to all this that we cannot see? However I dont think its necessary to explain events.

I'm not sure I follow. There's nothing mystical about the idea. The hypothesis is testable as shown by the research. The data currently looks to support it. I'm not sure why you ar…

This is a real thing. There appear to be intimate connections between the mind and the body, in both directions. Levels higher up the hierarchy of dynamical systems within an organ…

I agree with this. To get out of this local trap we are going to need something revolutionary. This is not something you can plow money into, it will come, if indeed it ever comes,…

My feeling on this: There is no effective science for this. Determining a more effective structure, for such a horribly non-linear dynamical system, requires mathematics which we d…

I acutely remember this issue when I was maybe 10 - 14. I tried to talk to my parents about the sadness I was feeling in these areas, but I couldn't make them understand. I had no-…

I think many people have a hunch in this direction. But that may just be because we desire ourselves to be in some way special. I would be wary of anyone discounting it out of hand…