Category: Non-Thinking
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Disharmony II: Irrational laughter
What is life? What is death? Does it matter what I know? I will still be alive anyway. Why does any knowledge matter, if you haven't experienced it yourself? How can you know how a peach tastes, if you haven't bitten that flesh? We strive for progress. We seek immortality. Only because we like life.…
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Chess AI does not know chess - The death of Type B strategy and its philosophical implications
Abstract Playing chess is one of the first sectors of human thinking that were conquered by computers. From the historical win of Deep Blue against chess champion Garry Kasparov until today, computers have completely dominated the world of chess leaving no room for question as to who is the king in this sport. However, the…
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Ignore… you!
Electric fish generate electric pulses to communicate with other fish and sense their surroundings. Some species broadcast shorter electric pulses, while others send out long ones. But all that zip-zapping in the water can get confusing. The fish need to filter out their own pulses so they can identify external messages and only respond to…
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Rubik’s cube. Blindfolded.
The classic Rubik’s Cube has a zillion different states. And yet some people can solve it in seconds by just seeing it for a moment. How can you solve anything while seeing? Close your eyes. And the solution will be covered in darkness. But so will the problem… Do you see now?
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Brain. Skin. Thinking. Not being.
Brain activity has an unmistakable signature: the firing of neurons, as brain cells relay information to one another through the triggered release of chemical neurotransmitters, which are received by the long, branching dendrites of neighbouring cells. This microscopic ritual is distinctive, but it doesn't belong only to neurons. Scientists have now found bursts of neuron-like…
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