Conventional platitudes and “safe” research agendas actively inhibit the free flow of ideas that discovery and authentic intellectual creativity or intelligence require.
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Integrated and distributed information and energy processing systems are biased by physical principles towards the minimisation of uncertainty.
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Information Density
Information density is an interesting concept.
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Unhackable Systems ?
Creating an “unhackable” system is a lofty aspiration; systemic closure is an implicit logical problem.
If a non-trivially complex organisational system of any kind or scale is to be considered (even notionally) as complete or entirely self-consistent, it can not also be adaptive, flexible and resilient.
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An Autonomous Science ?
The unfolding patterns, exploratory revelations and emergent complexity of Artificial Intelligence may not ultimately reveal itself to be as useful to us as we (and all our aspirations) turn out to be to it.
As the frequency of technological change accelerates, the amplitude and range of uncertainty is concurrently amplified.
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The Beautiful Uncertainty of Nature
It is in our attempts to explain, to mimic and to supersede nature that our greatest failures manifest themselves.
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Quieting the Ego
Psychological closure or completion of an isolated ego remains a functional, technological and sociological impossibility.
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The Purpose of Stupid Ideas
Does human stupidity actually serve a sociological purpose ?
A (perceived) ethical void in the bare-metal mechanisms of pure mathematical and statistical Reason generates that ideological and cultural reflex we see all around us as intransigent denial of demonstrable and provable facts.
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Stealthy Hackers
Cybersecurity is an iterative, recombinatory and open-ended logical process.
