Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.684

   So, so there there is a minimum and not only that, it has to have a certain causal structure, right? And we can we can kind of debate that and that's really in line too with surl you know in the Chinese room argument which is like look a dictionary is not doesn't have understanding because it doesn't have the right causal structure. You have to have a certain causal structure or a certain minimum complexity and then you reach this whatever it is whether it's consciousness we're talking about understanding agency all of these things right so I guess my question to you is will we be able to buil…

   yt/PNYWi996Beg-your-brain-is-a-prediction-machine-not-a-processor-karl-fris/transcript.txt

2. 02 · yt0.678

   And so that's a wonderful possibility that the ripples really from the beginning will just pass right through the fog and keep on going and we may one day be able to detect them. So I think that's one big one. The other big one I think reflects back to AI. That to me is the big wild card. You know who will be doing physics a hundred years from now? Will it be human beings? Will it be AI? Will it be human beings using AI? That latter option of course seems to be the happiest. And as of today, it would seem to be the most likely. But given that the development of AI may yield exponentially bette…

   yt/I3_me7RqteE-ask-brian-greene-live-q-a-world-science-festival/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.675

   But the thing to realize  is we are embedded as observers in this universe   that is branching all the time. And the critical  point then is that we are branching as well. So from this idea, from this first sort of naive  idea that when you have something where you have   many branches of history, that our experience  must just go down one branch, that's really not   the right picture. Actually there are a couple  of issues. One is that the branches can merge   and the other is that our experience can span many  branches. We…

   yt/FkYer0xP37E-stephen-wolfram-s-radical-theory-of-everything/transcript.txt

4. 04 · gutenberg0.672

   There is DISTRUST of these modern ideas in this mode of looking at things, a disbelief in all that has been constructed yesterday and today; there is perhaps some slight admixture of satiety and scorn, which can no longer endure the BRIC-A-BRAC of ideas of the most varied origin, such as so-called Positivism at present throws on the market; a disgust of the more refined taste at the village-fair motleyness and patchiness of all these reality-philosophasters, in whom there is nothing either new or true, except this motleyness. Therein it seems to me that we should agree with those skeptical ant…

   gutenberg/PG-4363-beyond-good-and-evil/PG-4363.txt

5. 05 · gutenberg0.667

   I have therefore treated our passing thoughts as integers, and regarded the mere laws of their coexistence with brain-states as the ultimate laws for our science. The reader will in vain seek for any closed system in the book. It is mainly a mass of descriptive details, running out into queries which only a metaphysics alive to the weight of her task can hope successfully to deal with. That will perhaps be centuries hence; and meanwhile the best mark of health that a science can show is this unfinished-seeming front.

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6. 06 · blog0.665

   We introduce it in Section 3.1. We invoke our illustrious forebears here mainly to illustrate the great scope of their ambitions, with the hope that their meliorist spirit will breathe life into the material covered in this article. In the midst of mathematical detail, it is easy to forget that formal epistemology is an expression of the hope that reason can be productively turned upon itself. If this project is miscarried, we risk obstructing or artificially circumscribing the scope and power of human reason. But what if it succeeds? 1.2 The Objects of Belief In the following we will see seve…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/formal-representations-of-belief.md

7. 07 · yt0.663

   And what's really formed out of this is um this uh s- I would say split. I don't think they're truly split. But let's say a cultural divide that I see growing um as people seek out new religions including AI religions which is another thing I've I've been writing about between those who want to come into leave the online world, leave the abstracted disembodied world, come into human contact, talk about political ideas face-to-face that where we can kind of you know share bread and be around a fire which I I fully agree with. Absolutely. And then there's you know you have on the other side um s…

   yt/Kclh9hSs8d0-iain-mcgilchrist-on-what-truly-matters/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.662

   In the end,   sort of the ideas about the Ruliad and  so on, the kind of entangled, limitable,   possible computations, that's sort of the  ultimately deconstructed, dehumanized thing.   But what you then realize, what I realized  eventually, is how our perception of the   laws of physics depends critically on our nature  as observers within the Ruliad. In other words,   from going from a completely dehumanized view of  science, that is this totally abstracted Ruliad,   turns out the humans are actually really…

   yt/FkYer0xP37E-stephen-wolfram-s-radical-theory-of-everything/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.662

   Like your your ideas might actually just be be starting to put into actually some applied permutations in terms of where I think your science, your theory could go. And for me, obviously, I'm tracking for a lot of the people who are um familiar with your work, I think they're all tracking. But before we move on from the sort of core claims that you make about reality, um I'm not sure if we hit all the regular bullet points. You know, clearly we've we've communicated the idea that not only is this reality in air quotes that we exist in limited, it really actually represents 0% of the greater re…

   yt/J--0hk89hmU-breakthrough-how-consciousness-creates-the-simulation-dr-don/transcript.txt

10. 10 · gutenberg0.662

    Its plan is traced by the subject itself. In the first chapter, we try on the evolutionary progress the two ready-made garments that our understanding puts at our disposal, mechanism and finality;[2] we show that they do not fit, neither the one nor the other, but that one of them might be recut and resewn, and in this new form fit less badly than the other. In order to transcend the point of view of the understanding, we try, in our second chapter, to reconstruct the main lines of evolution along which life has traveled by the side of that which has led to the human intellect. The intellect i…

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