[FRIAM] A Question For Tomorrow
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gepropella at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 19:07:47 EDT 2019
You're trolling me, aren't you? 8^) I can't help myself, though.
It's not an exclusive or you've laid out. Some of us will have fast memory that works well in common sense space and time. Some of us will have DSPs that work well in other conceptions (I'm thinking of Hawking, here). Etc. And while it's plausible that we stumble on innovative models (ways to think) that no human or animal could ever have had the means for programming their DSP, *eventually* [†] some clique of the population will develop DSPs for that way of thinking.
I'm blind to the stumbling block you see, I guess.
[†] Assuming we don't kill ourselves, of course.
On 4/30/19 3:58 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Either spacetime works in a surprising way and commonsense intuition is just wrong -- to cling to a familiar way of knowing amounts to taking the blue pill -- settling for crude satisficing heuristics to muddle through as a bag-of-water in what appears to be a 3D space. Or we are totally driven and our experiments are fate. In one case humans can't engage their special-purpose DSPs (so to speak) and fast thinking is useless -- we aren't equipped to function efficiently in that alien world. In the latter case, it just doesn't matter what we calculate. I think the potential for cognitive dissonance here is pretty clear.
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