[FRIAM] IS:New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality | WIRED WAS: Layers, not broilers

[glen ☣]

And, just in case y'all missed it in all the noise, here's ScottA's response I posted in the Graph/Network discursion:

On 06/09/2017 03:14 PM, gepr ⛧ wrote:
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>   Higher-level causation exists (but I wish it didn’t)
>   http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3294

And in there is an update linking to Hoel's response to Scott's response ... and so on ... and so on. 8^)


On 06/11/2017 10:43 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> I just read through the article and was equally intrigued and disappointed... intrigued by some of the ideas presented and disappointed by the (mostly) superficial treatment in the article... of course, it is at the right level for the audience I think, so no harm, no foul...  I just need to take the time/focus to go dig out the references to the source material not provided and start with THAT.  I'll be curious to hear if anyone else digs any deeper.
> 
> The whiteboard behind Hoel reminds me a lot too much of the whiteboards the UNM team I worked with in 2012-13 on "Faceted Ontologies" rooted in Category Theory (Caudell, Luger, Taha, et al).  I took photos of those white boards... somewhere deep in my archives.
> 
> FWIW, It also reminds me very vaguely/obliquely of Quantum Coherence in Water and the work of many including Dr. Mae Won Ho, who Guerin turned me onto.
> 
>     http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Quantum_Coherent_Water_Life.php
> 
> 
> On 6/11/17 7:48 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
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>> https://www.wired.com/story/new-math-untangles-the-mysterious-nature-of-causality-consciousness/
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>> I think you all will like this.  I actually think I disapprove, but it’s late and I cannot remember why.

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☣ glen