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The Buddha equation

Posted on January 7, 2025January 8, 2025 by Arto

There is some deep wisdom popping out from Jensen’s inequality.

Posted In Brain, Mental health, Philosophy, Speculations

Knowledge as a model of the world

Posted on November 29, 2024December 15, 2024 by Arto

Given that the main use of knowledge is to navigate through the world and through life, we can say that ontologically knowledge is our model of the world.

Posted In Brain, Philosophy, Speculations

Subjective experiences from an information differential

Posted on June 27, 2024July 11, 2024 by Arto

A hypothesis that I’d like to investigate is that subjective experiences arise as a consequence of state changes in an algorithm. I provisionally call such state changes information differentials.

Posted In AI, Brain, Speculations

About consciousness

Posted on December 3, 2023April 17, 2025 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

Emergent properties misunderstood

Posted on November 10, 2023December 5, 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

Quality and free energy

Posted on November 6, 2023October 23, 2024 by Arto

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

Posted In Speculations

To boldly go where no man has gone before

Posted on September 26, 2012August 12, 2023 by Arto

Eagleworks Labs giving a vision of the future. Set the throttle at warp 10 – next stop Alpha Centauri!

Posted In Speculations, Technology

How can we save the elves?

Posted on September 23, 2012July 24, 2023 by Arto

Having read Sam Harris book Free Will I feel like returning just a little bit to that very topic. I wrote a few posts about it back in 2008, posts that go along the same lines as Mr. Harris. Seems like I wasn’t alone holding those particular views but as Continue Reading

Posted In Speculations

In tune with the theories or in tune with the times?

Posted on February 11, 2009December 4, 2023 by Arto

It is not enough to be in tune with the theories; you also need to be in tune with the times to create great products. Too much theory may even dull your creativity and not leave much time to feel the vibes of the world (i.e., the market).

Posted In Society, Speculations

The blind watchmaker and the blind hen

Posted on August 15, 2008December 4, 2023 by Arto

10^500 ways to configure the universe.

Posted In Science, Speculations

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Beyond gender neutral bathrooms.

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

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