Born to do Math 190 – Watson and Google: Associational Engines

In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 190 – Watson and Google: Associational Engines October 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: If at all, how conscious are Watson and Google Translate? Both of which are association engines. Rick Rosner: The way Watson answers questions in Jeopardy, the question would be put into its …

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Ask A Genius 572 – Game Shows Aren’t to be Played Around With

In-Sight Publishing October 17, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is your gripe with game shows? There's a lot of context here. Rick Rosner: So I've worked on more than half a dozen game shows. I was co-creator of a game show. I've been a contestant on quiz shows. Five of which …

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Ask A Genius 571 – Cored Out: Corruption of a State and a Party

In-Sight Publishing October 15, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, we lost the signal yesterday when I was saying that in Trump's four years in office, three quarters of a million more Americans will have died under four years, under any other president. Only a third of that population is slightly bigger now …

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Born to Do Math 189 – This Little Piggy Went to the Slaughter: “Do you see what I see? Do you hear what I hear?”

In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 189 – This Little Piggy Went to the Slaughter: “Do you see what I see? Do you hear what I hear?” October 15, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we’ve talked about the colour red and perception and a certain universality in the perception of red …

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Ask A Genius 570 – Footnotes to Mass Death

In-Sight Publishing October 13, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Why is America so beholden to herd immunity right now, so much of America, just idea? Rick Rosner: It's Trump's latest idea. He's losing badly in the polls. His brain is full of steroids. He's just crazy. Aapparently, he's got an idiot in …

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Born to Do Math 188 – “A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”

In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 188 – “A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.” October 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we were talking off-tape about the arrow of time and physics. Rick Rosner: So, the physics that I know has always had a problem with …

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Born to Do Math 187 – Equation Flying Over Boulder

In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 187 – Equation Flying Over Boulder October 1, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you had an equation mentioned in an interview with Errol Morris and in one of the really, really short ebooks. What is it? Rick Rosner: In the equation, I said Planck’s Constant, …

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Born to Do Math 186 – Spirituality, “Thoughts and Prayers,” and Prayer

In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 186 – Spirituality, “Thoughts and Prayers,” and Prayer September 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, we talked a little bit about spirituality. We talked bluntly, in the not too distant past, about traditional religions. What about these practices? Is there any efficacy of prayer? Rick …

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Born to Do Math 185 – Mathematicization of Consciousness

In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 185 – Mathematicization of Consciousness September 15, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is meant by mathematicization of consciousness in IC? Rick Rosner: For a very persuasive theory of consciousness to exist, we would have to show what an information world looks like. We hypothesize it …

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Born to Do Math 184 – Technical, Not Mystical

In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 184 – Technical, Not Mystical September 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We use a lot of terms consistently. Since we us them a lot, we should specify some more. What meant by technical consciousness rather than mystical consciousness? Rick Rosner: I call consciousness a technical …

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