To brain or not to brain, that is the question…
Tag: intelligence
Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.
Corporate power in the technology domain is a complex cartography but it is not indecipherable. It takes intelligence and subtlety to address the problem of autonomously self-propagating information systems that have grown too large, too fast and in all of this speed and runaway self-replication represent something of an atavistic return to a state of accelerated reproduction which in cells occurs in (or as) cancer.
Human Intelligence 2.0
A characteristically long and wordy waffle on the topic of human intelligence, the cognitive hyper-extension of technology, an iterative fracture of grand narrative into abbreviated artefacts, unconscious biases and a Global turn towards authoritarianism.
Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.
Blind Chance
Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention.
Between Life and Death
Life is commonly considered as antithetical to death but in some ways, there may be a common ground and source between them.
Cultivating Innovation
Sociological, psychological and economic systems are poorly optimised to cultivate or acknowledge the forms of innovation and creative thinking that their existence in the world depends upon.
The Purpose of Stupid Ideas
Does human stupidity actually serve a sociological purpose ?
Humanity spends far too much time bickering and fighting over how we will collectively move forward to ever actually get on with the very serious business of actually ensuring our own continuity, survival and ongoing tenure on this planet.
Neural Network Concept Ontology
As Neural Networks get progressively smarter, our own intellect loses some of its unique character and special nature.
Rationality is (a) key, but it can not explain (or unlock) itself.