[FRIAM] multitasking

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On 6/2/21 8:37 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Yeah, not clear where the intuition for infinite sampling (path integral) comes from in connecting the two.   Although sometimes it seems like I DO try everything. 
> Given your remark about men possibly having a smaller number of objectives than women, why not turn over every damn rock?  :-)

Ha! Yeah, I'm not really a fan of the simulation hypothesis. But it does approach the "unconventional computing" idea where we might turn every damn rock into a computer, along with every bacterium, squid, and cow. If we could turn the whole world into a (multifarious) computer, then, almost by definition, we'd automatically try every path because the paths *are* the computer.

> Even with no stateful change, there's the disruption of the "instruction cache" by jumping around a lot.   I would think there would be some analogous neural locality to different tasks too, and longer spreading signals to jump between different tasks.

Aha! Thanks. I totally forgot about "computational momentum" ... midway through yet another article on the fatal flaws of Pinker's "Enlightenment Now" before my shower this morning, I needed more coffee and while walking upstairs I resumed that podcast on "Unwinding Anxiety". It was like grinding the gears on my old Datsun.

> I think part of it is that the parallelist ways are harder to unpack and explain.  So when asked how it is one makes a judgement (say about a social situation), it is hard to start from the start.   That means bringing to bear the diachronic tools to rationalize a story.   I wonder how many good writers and artists are really diachronic.    I suspect they cannot be. 

So, the "parallelism theorem", which argues any parallel process can be accurately simulated by a sequential process, reminds me of the fragility of "mimic models" (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09749). Unpacking and explaining is like the serialization of, say, an XMLStore ... or the scanning of a bitmap ... or maybe lossy decryption. Story-tellers are, inherently, liars ... gaslighting us with their just-so fiction.

> Controlled exertion.  What's not to love?   If I could do it hanging on a hook in a spacesuit, I would.   Snap off my head and do some work while the Neurallink driver pushes the body through spinal interfaces.  :-) 

Hilarious. The mindful practice of getting into an action pales in comparison to the transhumanism of downloading one's brain to a high performance machine. I've always wanted one of those electrical muscle stimulators I saw in a documentary about Bruce Lee umpteen million years ago. It'd be so cool to sit on the couch eating pizza while my torso was doing ab exercises ... except I suppose now it might cause some reflux or somesuch.

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