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Uncertainty arises directly from pure math ideas and has nothing to do with measurement technology, but how?

We think that neural activity creates subjective experience (

We think that neural activity creates subjective experience ("phenomenal consciousness") but lack a satisfying, quantitative understanding of how that actually happens. Near the heart of this mystery is the binding problem, which I understand as having tw

Like relativity , uncertainty is a deeply beautiful topic that is widely misunderstood. Many people are familiar with the idea that you cannot simultaneously know, for example, a particle's position and momentum to perfect accuracy. This is often thought

AI is coming for all aspects of our productivity.

With the enormous advances in machine learning over the last few years, it feels like we are now not only on the cusp of big things, but that the world is already a genuinely different place than it was just a little while ago. I mean, how does even just

Consider the following mathematical idea: A function $f(x)$ is smooth and continuous (i.e., it is differentiable everywhere) At some point $x_1$ the slope of $f$ is negative, $f'(x_1) 0$ At some other point $x_2 x_1$ the slope is positive, $f'(x_2) 0$ The

In the paper Psychedelics and the Human Receptorome by Thomas Ray there is a supplementary material table that is one of my favorite datasets of all time. I keep a copy of it on my laptop, with some extra color-coding, and every now and then open it and j

Making a neural interface requires accessing neural activity; the traditional approach involves removing part of the skull and placing electrodes onto or into the brain, something widely done today. 1 However, drilling a hole through the skull and boring