Do we live in a simulation or in the base reality?Elon Musk recently suggested that we likely do not live in a base reality, but in a simulation. He even puts the probability at a billion to one. Is he correct?
How to build an artificially intelligent plantEver wondered how to infuse an ordinary houseplant with some intelligence, while keeping its personality?
On Marvin MinskyMarvin Minsky has passed away from us last night. Nobody else in the 20th century has influenced our work and our way of looking at what makes us human like Marvin did.
No, the Universe is not a BrainCould the structure the universe support brain-like activities at interplanetary distances?
Computational Meta-PsychologyComputational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion and love?
Why I don’t think that Quantum Computers will work, everI have a nagging suspicion that we misinterpret quantum mechanics. I am probably wrong, but I believe that quantum computers may always be outperformed by classical algorithms.
