Being No One, First Main Argument
As you may know, I’m busy reading for my diploma thesis. If I manage to pull myself to it, that is, which is often not until noon, but regularly lasts to midnight and beyond. I happen to like reading at the office then, as that’s a way for me to switch context – “now I’m [...]
Rational-Causalist Phenomenology
What I always wondered when listening to Prof. E. Marbach’s lectures about phenomenology (or sitting in his seminars) was: Hm, well, this really doesn’t quite fit into a rational-causalist world view (like science currently propagates), at all. Being dualist in nature and all.
But, phenomenologists have a point: There are things science just can’t explain (yet?), [...]
How the LHC Actually Works
Neotorama was featuring this really interesting explanation of how the Large Hadron Collider actually works yesterday evening:
Linear acceleration, circular boosting in 4 packets with pulses, further acceleration in the proton synchotron (a larger ring) and gain of mass, further energy addition in the super proton synchotron, and finally the LHC itself with 2 rings with [...]
Tangential Learning, Sex, and Games
If you’re a gamer, I’m sure you know Zero Punctuation — if not, take a seat and start with the very first ones. Because if you do, I’m sure you can’t stop until you’re through.
OK, watched them all? Good. It’s important to acknowledge that Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw has done more than do good reviews destroying [...]
Big Bang! Or is it?
In case you haven’t noticed, the world hasn’t ended yet. Which is good I guess, particularly since it’s despite the LHC (which stands for Large Hadron Collider, apparently) having been switched on this morning at CERN.
Everybody’s celebrating, even Google, with one of their famous doodles (uhm … does “please do not use them elsewhere” mean [...]
John Searle’s Chinese Room
I attempted to show in a paper that my counter arguments to Searle’s Chinese Room don’t prove that there can be such a thing as strong AI, but that at least they go to show that Searle’s attempt at proving there can’t be has failed, and as such the question whether strong AI can exist is as of yet still unresolved.
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