[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is on the Turing test. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: So I mentioned I wanted to talk about the Turing test and we did get around to it but you did tell me you read Hawkins’s paper on it. You told me to read it and I didn't get around …
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Ask A Genius 770: Consciousness and the Rules of Existence
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: This is the other topic of consciousness. Go ahead. Rick Rosner: All right. We know that existence is inevitable because the rules of existence, the rules that prohibit certain kinds of existence, particularly contradictory existence aren't all encompassing enough to stop existence. We've postulated that anything that can exist does …
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Ask A Genius 769: Hopelessly Divided Consciousness
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You wanted to talk about consciousness in two different kinds of contexts. What do you think about it? Rick Rosner: All right. So, I just got done talking about our hopelessly divided country which includes a third of the country being persuaded to believe that any fertilized human egg deserves …
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Ask A Genius 768: Another Richard Feynman Quote
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Richard Feynman – “The Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.” Rick Rosner: Yeah, scientists especially scientists who become quotable by being recognized as great scientists have lots of aphorisms. Sometimes you can appreciate them as themselves. Einstein talked about ‘God doesn't play dice with the universe’, ‘If this Theory isn't …
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Ask A Genius 767: Richard Feynman Quote
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A Richard Feynman quote. This is from The Character of Physical Law, 1965, chapter one: the law of gravitation, page 15. “This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature– this idea that to look at the thing, to record the details, …
Ask A Genius 766: Melania Trump Quote
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: “The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what did wrong and you make it right. I say that to …
Ask A Genius 765: Michelle Obama Quote
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: “The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what did wrong and you make it right. I say that to …
Ask A Genius 764: Boris Sidis Quote
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Boris Sidis -“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.” Rick Rosner: Okay, William Sidis is …
Ask A Genius 763: Raymond Chandler Quotes
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: “I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.” - Raymond Chandler. Rick Rosner: I believe Raymond Chandler worked for insurance, he was an insurance executive. I think he was married to a wife who was older than him and who was indisposed or a …
Ask A Genius 762: Giga Society
[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Is the Giga Society label legitimate? Or is it more aspirational? Rick Rosner: Not legitimate but is it a meaningful distinction which is a less loaded way of asking it. Jacobsen: I mean to me it sounds more aspirational but a serious effort. Rosner: So anyway what else can you …
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