Monthly Archives: December 2019

A documentary on consciousness made by “The Caballers” https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqQiT1LgARmtwQ7SKQHvHOKbWeHJ?e=8xt2oe Math: Fallon, Francis. “Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, St. John’s University, www.iep.utm.edu/int-info/. Somers, James. “The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 24 Aug. 2015, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/. Biology: Allen, Colin, and Michael Trestman. “Animal Consciousness.” Stanford Encyclopedia of […]

I’d rather answer your question of: “What is time”? Time to me is just an excuse for us to put things off. We say yeah “I’ll start my homework at 5pm” or “I’ll leave in 30 minutes”. We’re just using this arbitrary measurement to avoid doing things in the moment. A teacher will sometimes ask […]

I was absent this day during class so below is the assignment as reported to me by Anthony along with some of his notes. Ideally, I would’ve liked to go outside for my meditation but since I was sick, going out into the pouring rain didn’t seem like the best idea. Instead, I went downstairs […]

I agree with Hofstader about how we make sense of the world by making associations or as he calls them “analogies”. When I saw the words “gray gelatin” I immediately thought “brain”. When I saw the words “Deep Blue” as in the chess computer I thought of the ocean and it’s unknown and infinite qualities. […]