Epstein Secrets

deed, one would be hard pressed to find an experimental refutation of any orthodox neoclassical proposition in the last four decades, so appeals to Popper were more ceremonial than substantial. Of course, sometimes the natural sciences encountered something commensurable to a crisis in their own field

tically, however recent work by Lorenz, Paltridge, Ackland & Gallagher, and others in the field of planetary ecology and, also that of Dewar, Levy, Solomon and others in the field of theoretical physics appear to have changed things substantially. In the 1970s Garth Paltridge produced papers looking at

in artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here I'll reserve the term “thinking” for processes that can create understanding (explanatory knowledge). Popper’s argument implies that all thinking entities—human or not, biological or artificial—must create such knowledge in fundamentally the same way. Hence

expected phone call from Wiener’s colleague Arthur K. Solomon, head of Harvard’s graduate program in biophysics. Wiener had died the year before, and Solomon and Wiener’s other close colleagues at MIT and Harvard had been reading about the Expanded Cinema Festival in the New York Times and were intrigued b

in artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here I'll reserve the term “thinking” for processes that can create understanding (explanatory knowledge). Popper’s argument implies that all thinking entities—human or not, biological or artificial—must create such knowledge in fundamentally the same way. Hence

expected phone call from Wiener’s colleague Arthur K. Solomon, head of Harvard’s graduate program in biophysics. Wiener had died the year before, and Solomon and Wiener’s other close colleagues at MIT and Harvard had been reading about the Expanded Cinema Festival in the New York Times and were intrigued b