Things my mind is preoccupied with
This is a commentary on whether the two linguistic tags – cognition and perception – allude to the same concept or not. Originally written on 10th October 2012. Dear gentle reader, find for yourself that which is “not information” or that which is “not sign” or that which is “not signal”. Once you have done so, […]
An Example of Epistemic Reduction in Cognitive Science A description of theoretic and explanatory reductions and their features is followed by an example of epistemic reduction of a model in cognitive psychology to models in computational neuroscience. The paper also aims to visit the notions of implementation, realization and explanation with respect to reduction as […]
I believe the concept of division is inadequate and that entropy in the universe screws with our ability to do division. So by using “partition of real numbers” I intend to improve upon the concept of division. And yes I am rather confident that this is a clever bit of mathematical artistry, a token of […]
Knowledge is attained only by an inquisitor whose attributes such as gender, religion, region of origin, financial status, etc. are to bare no consequence on his or her worthiness of attaining knowledge.The motivation and attitude of the inquisitor does bare a significant consequence on how he or she uses their knowledge but, the end result […]
Art, science or religion and other matters pertaining to information are not entities that ought to be personified. Have you ever tried personifying a language? Have you ever used a sentence like, “English tells us that verbing words weirds language”? Never the less I have heard the expressions, “science tells us that…” or “<insert religion name> tells us that…” […]
My comments on people’s blogs have the size of an article at times so I’m posting one here. This one is related to Justin Caouette‘s blog on Forgiveness: How does it work? (Unfortunately there isn’t a proper way to link followup comments connecting multiple blogs.) i had given serious consideration to the notion of forgiveness during […]
Of Universities and Companies January 20th, 2012 Part I Many universities all across the world have outlived governments, wars and even survived natural calamities. We can see a testament to their resilience, without naming any specific ones, in the innovative works of world renowned universities that are centuries old. Their sustainability is largely due to […]
Futz |fətz| verb To idle around; waste time To deal with something in a trifling way To work on something for long hours and achieve little or nothing that is useful Usage: I have done a lot of futtsing in my lifetime and still am as I spend days troubleshooting things on my computer without […]
This article was inspired by The Petite Geek’s list of robotic chores. The realm of art seems to be ever expanding due to inspirations that living beings have and so the realm of science and belief end up expanding as well. So what about artificial intelligence? They are not living entities so can they be […]
