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Believe me.
Something essential in life is learning how to love struggle—problems, conflict, fights. Otherwise, they will overwhelm you. I learned that early, and in my own way, I came to value them. Life has given me a lot of harsh things, honestly, ever since childhood. I’m a full orphan, raised in aggressive Russian ghettos, but I…
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High-Level Schemas and Representations in Electronic Minds
What if I ask about the highest-level representations in an electronic mind—or, more modestly, about whatever functions as a top-level organizing schema (a “point of support” for the currently active module)? The routing of perception and the distribution of information in any intelligent system appears to be hierarchical. In humans, the highest-level representations often orient…
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Neuron is not transistor
“The main unit of a biological computer is a nerve cell, or neuron, which is internally very different from a (computer chip) transistor. Of course, the code through which neurons exchange information resembles the code based on a sequence of impulses used in digital computing machines, but an individual neuron is a much more sophisticated…
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Cognition and experience
They say that the purest knowledge is empirical, that is, based on direct experience. But experience can be deceitful, e.g. optical illusions or logical experiments of dual interpretation. After all, understanding is the primary of the mind and of it’s director: the reason. A simple experiment: imagine the smartest man, the best mind system in…
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Intellect, ethics, talented but wrong directed people
Various parts of the human brain are not necessarily interconnected. But it’s true that we can only call a truly good man a morally and correctly intelligent man, that is, a noble man. That’s primary. A well-trained brain in terms of aesthetics, technology, is nothing without proper ethics, moral course and nobility, it is like…