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| | selfawarepatterns.com
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| | As a computational functionalist, I think the mind is a system that exists in this universe and operates according to the laws of physics. Which means that, in principle, there shouldn't be any reason why the information and dispositions that make up a mind can't be recorded and copied into another substrate someday, such as...
| | www.wiringthebrain.com
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| | There is a paradox at the heart of modern neuroscience. As we succeed in explaining more and more cognitive operations in terms of patter...
| | scottaaronson.blog
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| | Unrelated Announcement: The Call for Papers for the 2024 Conference on Computational Complexity is now out! Submission deadline is Friday February 16. Every month or so, someone asks my opinion on the simulation hypothesis. Every month I give some variant on the same answer: As long as it remains a metaphysical question, with no empirical...
| | wavewatching.net
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| Any quantum computer using superconducting Josephson junctions will have to be operated at extremely low temperatures. The D-Wave machine, for instance, runs at about 20 mK, which is much colder th