In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 5 - Cognitive Economics Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Rick, you have mentioned some parts, in other discussions, about low-cost, beneficial, non-empirical belief systems. For instance, about things that are non-provable, some might deem them non-meaningful by that definition, or matters …
Cognitive Thrift 4 – Motor Ability
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 4 - Motor Ability Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 9, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There’s an aspect to do with motor ability. The degree to which an organism travels. How regular and localized is its general itinerary in addition its kin? And human beings having a …
Cognitive Thrift 3 – Size
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 3 - Size Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are some of your ideas about cognitive thrift with respect to size? Rick Rosner: One, it requires a lot of resources to run a thinking organism. It costs a lot in terms of energy. Two, …
Cognitive Thrift 2 – Error Reduction
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 2 - Error Reduction Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 7, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That recalls two things for me. On the one hand, the strength of the cognitive system. On the other hand, its weaknesses too. What would cognitive economic state about the strengths and weaknesses of an evolved …
Cognitive Thrift 1 – The Start
In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 1 - The Start Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 6, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When we talk about aspects of efficiency in thought as an implication of optimal informational arrangements such as mass and gravitational forces to make aggregations of matters as representative of information efficiency, …
Born to do Math 60 – Sum Over Histories
In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 60 – Sum Over Histories Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 5, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: It is also something that you can physics without. You cannot do quantum physics without quantum indeterminacy. That systems exist in states where there is not enough information to …
Born to do Math 59 – Many Worlds
In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 59 – Many Worlds Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 4, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Perspectives like the Many Worlds perspective. I have a feeling that when we understand things better. There will be optional perspectives, optional ways to frame existence that may or may …
The Future of…1 – Welcome to the Future
In-Sight Publishing The Future of…1 – Welcome to the Future Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 2, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We don’t think much about the future. The reason being that the future has looked much like the present. In the 14th century, if you lived in a village and …
Ask A Genius 101 – Life and Death (Part 16)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 101 – Life and Death (Part 16)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 26, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: We talked about the depressing aspects of life and death. Death in its rather bleak aspects as well as life in its gross aspects—sex, bodily functions. Another aspect …
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Ask A Genius 100 – Life and Death (Part 15)
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 100 – Life and Death (Part 15)[1] Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner February 25, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Jacobsen: To the beginning of the conversation, the kind of the religious and modern secular taboos around sexual relations, and the way that bodily functions are all haphazard—boogers, eye …
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