by orchaeus | Apr 29, 2023 | Shared Post
When I say ‘the mouse people’ I do not mean a sort of fairy-tale image. I mean an image of almost terrifying power and intelligence, far beyond what humans are inclined to think or consider because they think these people are ‘small and cute’...
by orchaeus | Mar 16, 2023 | Shared Post
Food for thought… and as Sarah West mentioned, the inspiration for The Secret of NIMH.
by orchaeus | Feb 26, 2023 | Shared Post
From my response to a post attempting to refute Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment… “The problem, it seems to me at first glance (and I am familiar with Searle’s work) is a fundamental difference that persists, regardless of infinite...
by orchaeus | Jan 25, 2023 | Shared Post
AI isn’t intelligent. It doesn’t do what we mean by learning, either – unless it is somehow decided that mere complexification is equivalent, which it should not and must not become. There are terrifying implications for our own intelligence whenever...
by orchaeus | Nov 18, 2022 | Shared Post
The organisms and living places… the earth and sun and moon are >doing and being something transcendental… which produces minds as a >side effect of their nature and activity. Modern humans have entirely failed to even begin to imagine this, and we have no...
by orchaeus | Nov 17, 2022 | Shared Post
An interesting and compelling thread. There seems to be an issue here that strikes me as crucial; but it is not precisely the squirrel, or the story. Rather, it is the human propensity to incorrectly presume that the representations we use, in language and...
