Commonplace
Passages, fragments, and ideas worth returning to. This will grow as I move quotations out of scattered notes and into one place.
Featured passage
“The essential fallacy,” Gothi picks up, “is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And that sentience, as imagined by the self-proclaimed sentient, is an illusion manufactured by a sufficiently complex series of neural interactions. A simulation, if you will.”
Threads to collect
- Mind, consciousness, and the stories intelligence tells about itself
- Systems, emergence, and cooperation
- Technology as both tool and environment
- Language, translation, and understanding