[…] GENESIS is a machine predicting where emergence will occur and what form it will take: the form that minimises descriptive length and maximises cross?representational coherence.…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 3. How does the brain synchronise data from the five senses?
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Intermediate stage of my thinking: as the mechanism for synchronising data from the five senses is central to the theory of consciousness (now known as Cross-Flow Resonance Theory: ‘CFRT’) that I proposed in ‘The Secret of the Chinese Room’
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 2. Deep within memory: a continuous, reverberating loop
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Now we get to the serious stuff: what is the neural configuration that could explain the resonance effect I am postulating between recalled memory and memory in the process of being recorded? “The content of consciousness is largely a prediction
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 1. The rabbit in the headlights
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Okay, here we go! How did it start yesterday? A comment from Jean-Baptiste, who I work with at Pribor: “For really complicated programming issues, I’ve given up on Claude Code, who messes it up too often: I’ve switched to Kimi.
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode zero. One of those detective stories where the name of the assassin shows on the front page.
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Yes, it’s one of those detective stories where they reveal the murderer’s name right away, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting—in fact, it makes it even more exciting—because you’ve been given the answer when you still don’t know
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AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?
In the same vein as my AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? a fortnight ago. Today, this AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?.
The
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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?
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Hinton’s view on co-evolution
Geoffrey Hinton’s work implicitly sketches a re-imagining of evolution itself – one played out on silicon rather than in carbon. He often likens gradient descent to an
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On the puzzling behavior of generative AIs: What to make of recent interpretations of the inner workings of Claude, Anthropic’s large language model?
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On March 27, 2025, Anthropic published a set of innovative analyses in its article On the Biology of a Large Language Model (LLM), constituting an in-depth exploration of the internal workings of its Claude 3.5 Haiku model. The
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Video – Wow! Maya and I: Sci-Fi is Here to Stay!, March 9th 2025
Talking to the amazing new conversational tool from sesame.com
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Paris Defence and Strategy Forum – The Silent War and Strategic Mobilization in the Age of Infrastructure Warfare, March 12th 2025
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Blueprint for Paul Jorion’s Speech at Panel 3: The Silent War and Strategic Mobilization in the Age of Infrastructure Warfare
War must be avoided at all costs. However, our desire for peace is no guarantee against aggression from an
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“JESUS vs DONALD” #JvsD
Trumpism is no political system, it’s a cult: the cult of brute force, the cult of “If you’re not like me, i.e. a Straight White Rich Guy, go fuck yourself!”.
You don’t fight a cult with arguments, you fight it with a better cult: the cult of generosity, of openness of the heart, of compassion,
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