Lem
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Competence without knowledge: a new reading of a page of Solaris
The following is from chapter “The Old Mimoid”, in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem “But you don’t know…
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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…
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Cosmism
It appears to me that a single idea transpires through Isaac Asimov’s “New Guide to Science”,…
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Grammars vs feedback control
There was a point in which the AI community adopted Chomsky grammars. Grammars are Cartesian universals.…
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Kant’s Einbildungskraft, Popper and Lem
Another take on the same topic. Popper falsificationism amounts basically to a view of the scientific…
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Stanislaw Lem: Revolution in the Mind
In Summa Technologiae, Stanislaw Lem of “Solaris” fame addresses some of the most pressing questions connected…
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