The following is from chapter “The Old Mimoid”, in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem “But you don’t know what I was thinking about! Tell me something. Do you believe in God?” Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction: “What? Who still… Read More ›
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Golem xiv: the poverty of Antigone
The best explanation I know about transhumanism, and the poverty of Antigone’s appeal to the ‘unwritten laws of the gods’, is the novel Golem xiv by great Stanislaw Lem. The frame of reference is Princeton molecular biologist Lee Silver’s marvellous… Read More ›
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Cosmism
It appears to me that a single idea transpires through Isaac Asimov’s “New Guide to Science”, Carl Sagan’s book “Cosmos” and many more: this idea is Cosmism. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a true legend, the inventor of astronautic and a pioneer… Read More ›
Grammars vs feedback control
There was a point in which the AI community adopted Chomsky grammars. Grammars are Cartesian universals. The other approach (N. Wiener) would have been to use feedback control system (later: stochastic control) to interpret learning. It did not happen. It… Read More ›
Kant’s Einbildungskraft, Popper and Lem
Another take on the same topic. Popper falsificationism amounts basically to a view of the scientific process where science in its march places increasingly more stringent bounds on the possible explanations that are supported by a verification process. It is… Read More ›
Stanislaw Lem: Revolution in the Mind
In Summa Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem of “Solaris” fame addresses some of the most pressing questions connected to the shape human life has acquired in the modern world because of technology, whereby the ontology of previous Weltanschauungen has been replaced in… Read More ›
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