Ask A Genius 496 – Just Throw Common Sense and Math at the Problem

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 496 - Just Throw Common Sense and Math at the Problem January 6, 2019 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: From what you're saying, I am seeing a nice primer between folk psychology and psychology, and intuitive physics and physics. Folk psychology as a primer to psychology and intuitive physics …

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Ask A Genius 495 – Newton: Observer and Thinker-Abouter

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 495 - Newton: Observer and Thinker-Abouter January 5, 2019 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about Newton? What about intuitive physics? Rick Rosner: He was a good observer and a good thinker-abouter about things. You would have to be a genius to figure out things that he figured out. For …

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Ask A Genius 494 – Ontological Lower Limits and Upper Limits

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 494 - Ontological Lower Limits and Upper Limits January 4, 2019 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is the limit of the knowledge from physics? Rick Rosner: You were talking to a cosmologist who is working towards a theory of multiverses. You were saying that our knowledge is limited in …

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Ask A Genius 493 – Anything Goes Sports

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 493 - Anything Goes Sports January 3, 2019 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Currently, we may want to invert the system in place. Biological male identifying as trans-women and biological female identifying as trans-men.  Where, males as men and trans-women and females as women and trans-men compete with one …

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Ask A Genius 492 – What? (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 492 - What? (2) January 2, 2019 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Does this play into personal dynamics for you? Rick Rosner: I am a little aware of it. Because I am conversationally awkward. Perhaps, it is more conscious than other people in other situations. I worked in bars for …

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The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 31 – Rick Ros, Rick Loss (2)

In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 31 - Rick Ros, Rick Loss (2) January 1, 2019 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: He and I had a show plot that was set in the future; he came up with an idea and I helped him. We called it Albuquerque 2029, which would …

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Ask A Genius 491 – What? (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 491 - What? (1) January 1, 2019 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You were mentioning holographic information processing. It has a sort of analog. I do not want to draw a direct connection. In a live conversation, we have a sort of easy communication. That distribution all-around may produce …

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Ask A Genius 490 – Wind Not in My Hair, Sun in My Eyes and Can’t See

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 490 - Wind Not in My Hair, Sun in My Eyes and Can't See December 31, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about in-built biases and also in-built accuracies? Rick Rosner: The in-built accuracies in perception and thought are a result of us evolving perceptual and computational systems that …

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Ask A Genius 489 – An Apple is Not an Orange or a Puppy, From This Angle

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 489 - An Apple is Not an Orange or a Puppy, From This Angle December 30, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You gave an example several weeks ago about an apple. If Newton had the apple hit his head, if it is not apocryphal and, in fact, true, …

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Ask A Genius 488 – Decoupling (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 488 - Decoupling (2) December 29, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What does this imply for material events in relation to information and information processing? Rick Rosner: Material events can happen without much affecting the information processing or the way the information processing is perceived in the information processing …

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