[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, there's an idea called workspace theory with regards to the operations of the mind and cognition. I sent the article or the link to you in a reference to it. What are some of your preliminary thoughts on it? Does it have any relevance to informational cosmology? Rick Rosner: …

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[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You have a lot of thoughts on the current actions of the state of Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza strip and associated areas. What is it? Rick Rosner: Right before we started taping, you mentioned that we should touch on anti-Zionism isn't necessarily anti-Semitism because you can …

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[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: All right. So, we were talking about transcribing because there's a whole process when we're talking and then to get it turned into a print for putting on online. I have a transcription story that infuriated my wife and myself. Carol got a driving ticket from the highway patrol for making …

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[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: All right. So, we were talking about transcribing because there's a whole process when we're talking and then to get it turned into a print for putting on online. I have a transcription story that infuriated my wife and myself. Carol got a driving ticket from the highway patrol for making …

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[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: So, a principle of IC is that consciousness fairly easily and reasonably and frequently arises because it's an efficient way and an achievable way for systems to model the world to increase their chances for survival, right? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: Okay. So, evolution evolves; it arises and then that …

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[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You wanted to talk about social media or specifically Twitter going to shit. What's up? Rick Rosner: So, Musk took over Twitter maybe eight months ago. Things already weren't great across social media and on Twitter because a significant percentage of social media users have either been driven a little …

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[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: Okay. I've seen advertised on Twitter, Twitter which is a terrible mess right now because Elon Musk is a terrible mess; the owner but you can set AI loose on all the scientific papers out there and it will find correlations among papers. It'll kind of do some of its own …

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[Recording Start]  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I was having a percolating thought. Large-scale human institutions; everyone believes in them, has shared values around them, and these structure everything we do in terms of the course development of our lives, the fine-tuned stuff like little interactions. Things like the United Nations, the World Bank, nation states, democratic …

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[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: You don't want a theory that says your current theory, say the Big Bang, is wrong and there's a bunch of evidence that it's wrong, you just can't see it. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: [Laughing]. Rosner: That's a bad coincidence. We have a theory that the Big Bang is wrong-ish but there …

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[Recording Start]  Rick Rosner: You and I just started talking off tape about inflation. In America there's a lot of greenflation which is companies realizing that they can get away with charging more than not have it affect their market share significantly. So, they just charge more even if it's not freaking fair and they …

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