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About consciousness

Posted on December 3, 2023December 3, 2023 by Arto

There are as many theories about consciousness as there are definitions and the philosophical and scientific community is still far from consensus. This post represents my current understanding.

Posted In Brain, Speculations

Inget land för svaga människor

Posted on December 1, 2023December 3, 2023 by Arto

Sverige är inget land för svaga människor.

Posted In Mental health

Integritet in i graven

Posted on November 19, 2023November 20, 2023 by Arto

Den praktiska konsekvensen av en dåligt implementerad lag är att i Sverige har en individs integritet ett högre värde än individens liv.

Posted In Mental health

Topics and languages

Posted on November 19, 2023November 19, 2023 by Arto

I will from time to time comment topics that mainly concernt the state of affairs in Sweden. Those posts will be in Swedish. The choice of language will thus be a hint about the geographical scope of the topic.

Posted In Uncategorized

Emergent properties misunderstood

Posted on November 10, 2023November 27, 2023 by Arto

Most systems have the properties they have because they were designed that way, either by humans or by nature, not because they “emerged”.

Posted In AI, Brain, Speculations, Systems engineering

What is a system?

Posted on November 7, 2023November 9, 2023 by Arto

Since much or our lives today depend on systems and many of the biggest risks for individuals and for humanity as a whole emanate from systems, it is imperative that we have proper methods and tools to build useful and safe systems.

Posted In Systems engineering

Quality and free energy

Posted on November 6, 2023November 8, 2023 by Arto

On Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, ISO 9000, quality, and the free energy principle.

Posted In Speculations

Changing the world

Posted on November 5, 2023November 8, 2023 by Arto

In this post I will try to explain how an organism, according to active inference framework, plans actions to minimize free energy, thereby staying alive.

Posted In Brain

Many ways to slice free energy

Posted on October 24, 2023November 1, 2023 by Arto

Variational free energy can be expressed in many ways, each with a different but complementary interpretation.

Posted In Brain

Surprise illustrated

Posted on September 27, 2023November 29, 2023 by Arto

This post illustrates why surprise is an intuitively useful quantity.

Posted In Brain

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Beyond gender neutral bathrooms.

Most epistemologists have found it overwhelmingly plausible that what is false cannot be known.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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