The God concept
Let's start by observing that most civilizations and individuals are developing a concept of God or Gods, even without outside preaching.Polytheistic religionsAncient Greeks and Romans had many Gods....
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We only have models, not knowledge
We know that water boils at 100 degrees Celsius, right? Or not ; on mount Everest the water boils at around 70 degrees Celsius, so you can't even boil an egg. Ok, we have a more complex model that lin...
On Mindfulness
I will approach mindfulness from an informational perspective, adding just a little brain physiology. If you already know about mindfulness, you can directly skip to "The heresy" Introduction As many...
How can we all be right even when we believe incompatible things
Reality is pretty complex, alright... Normally we expect reality to be far more complex than we can comprehend in a limited human mind. Each time we look to one object, many other objects go outside o...
About consciousness
How would you define consciousness? Is dreaming a form of consciousness? What happens when you pass out? Consciousness (like in "aware of himself") is a subjective perception that is normally easily a...
The jug and the bird
In my 5'th grade, the new professor of Mathematics told us a puzzle: there is a jug with water staying in the desert, and a bird wants to drink some water. However, the jug have a tight neck, like the...
On Intelligent life forms
I define intelligence as the capacity of one entity to create complex internal representations that can be used to predict about it's environment the likely outcome from a particular configuration or...
On "competency living" and intelligence
I will call "competency living" the sum of behavioral competencies that allows an organism (in particular a human) to adapt to environment through learning. "Competency living" will not cover simple b...
Can a computer (or human) simulate itself?
A virtual machine is a common example of simulation. It can take the description of a (virtual) "computer" state and continue the execution from that point on. You can simulate a huge computer given a...
We believe in a compressible Universe
"Believe" is often associated with religion. However, even for using the "scientific method", we are forced to assume certain qualities of the Universe that we cannot prove nor fully verify. The most...