Ask A Genius 487 – Decoupling (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 487 - Decoupling (1) December 28, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What else follows from structure and information? Rick Rosner: Some information is encoded non-locally, not the same way exactly. In holograms, information is not entirely locally distributed. You get information from the whole of the hologram. If you …

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Ask A Genius 486 – Consciousness and Its Registry, and Register-ers (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 486 - Consciousness and Its Registry, and Register-ers (2) December 27, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What would this imply for the world informationally? How does a registering set of things give an indication of the universe? Rick Rosner: The world is only full of entities that register and …

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Ask A Genius 485 – Consciousness and Its Registry, and Register-ers (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 485 - Consciousness and Its Registry, and Register-ers (1) December 26, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What distinguishes information in the universe that constructs it, and information in individual consciousness, such as evolved organisms like human beings? Rick Rosner: I do not think information is information unless it is …

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Ask A Genius 484 – Information and Context

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 484 - Generic Information and Context December 25, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There are different forms of information. One in a highly organized system but spread out. Another tightly knit and appears to make information, too. Rick Rosner: Information probably isn't information without context and the ability to …

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Ask A Genius 483 – Everything Falls Into the Paradox Vortex

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 483 - Everything Falls Into the Paradox Vortex December 24, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When we are talking about the media and the proliferation of media in different forms connecting to social media, there is also a breaking apart of, not entirely, the state propaganda. That is …

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Ask A Genius 482 – Heating Up: Climate Change, Mathematicizing Consciousness, and Denzel Washington in Black Trenchcoat

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 482 - Heating Up: Climate Change, Mathematicizing Consciousness, and Denzel Washington in Black Trenchcoat December 23, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are some other possible futures? Rick Rosner: Oh! The deal is that there are a bunch of different possible futures but most reasonable possible futures now …

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Ask A Genius 481 – Consciousness at the Crossroad of Eternity and Immortality

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 481 - Consciousness at the Crossroad of Eternity and Immortality December 22, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about our own minds? What other about other possible futures? Rick Rosner: The problem of consciousness is still not entirely acknowledged as a problem, as a technical or a technological …

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The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 30 – Rick Ros, Rick Loss (1)

In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 30 - Rick Ros, Rick Loss (1) December 22, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's up? A distraught day. Richard Rosner: So, I found out yesterday that my younger brother, who's just turned 53, has died. He was found in bed; he is …

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Ask A Genius 480 – The Wonderful Future and Happy Endings

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 480 - The Wonderful Future and Happy Endings December 21, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I like happy endings. Does the end of the human era with the slow dismantling of problems about comprehension of the human organism lead to one? Rick Rosner: I have been thinking. It …

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Ask A Genius 479 – Predicting Sex, Expecting Sex, and Entitlement as Evolutionary Baggage in Incorrect Prediction

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 479 - Predicting Sex, Expecting Sex, and Entitlement as Evolutionary Baggage in Incorrect Prediction December 20, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about the prediction from a central processing arena for conscious thought? Is this always and only the main operation of the brain? Rick Rosner: There are …

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