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▶️ 🎧 The Illusion of Self & Free-Will

2min (31:43 - 34:20)

Summary:

In some sense, the u is the model of the system that is in control. It’s a story that the system tells itself about somebody who is in controls. And the contents of that model are being used to inform the behavior of the system. So how’s tha on illusion? The story is written then? Or or rather, we’re not the writers of the story. But we always knew that? No, we don’t know. When do we know that? I think that were mostly confusion about concepts.

▶️ 🎧 Is There a Perfect Circle? I.e. does Infinity exist?

3 min️ (47:07 - 50:17)

Summary:

I don’t think that you need infinities as you never needed them. You can build your computer algebra systems just as well without believing in infinity in the first place. A limit means that something is behaving pretty much the same if you make the number larger, right? Because it’s converging to a certain value. That point the difference becomes neturable, and you can no longer measure it. In this sense, you have things that er, if evan en gon wiches has enough corners, then it’s going to behave like a circle at some point,. And it’s only going to be in some kind of esoteric thing that cannot exist in a physical universe.

▶️ 🎧 Is There Something Special About Our Mind That Cannot Be Modelled?

2 min️ (51:43 - 54:05)

Summary:

Rajah penrose: There is a human experience that includes intelligence and self awareness. And the question is, can that be fully simulated in the computer as we understand it to day? Rajah Penrose: The universal tom machine, cannot simulate the universe. So why not? What is the specific thing that cannot be modelled? He says only assimulation can be conscious.