Antropofadiga

urso sem asas

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

'I have done most of my reading in English. I find English a far finer language than Spanish.'

Borges then proceeds to expound a brief but compelling apology of the English language, which as an Anglophile I don't tire of listening to. Very much worth the watch.

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

David Lynch recounts his experience with therapy:

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

David Lynch and his experience with a psychiatrist.

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

Tarkovsky on the purpose of art:

“Art is prayer. That says it all. Through art humankind expresses hope. Everything else is irrelevant. All that which doesn't express hope and isn't built on a spiritual foundation has nothing to do with art.”

[Antropofadiga @aleiatorio]

@LegacySiu Suarez

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

[jairme @jairmearrependi]

Caso de semiótica fantástico onde o Valdemar se posiciona na frente do candidato ao presidente, mostrando quem realmente manda.

E isso é muito bonito.

Vou votar em Lula.

[Antropofadiga @aleiatorio]

Orações e xingamentos

[Estadão 🗞️ @Estadao]

Flávio inicia campanha em ato esvaziado em Copacabana com bandeira dos EUA, orações e xingamentos https://t.co/VVBnvML3Uf

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

Tarkovsky’s message to the young:

[bixa muda @gokamaciel]

ele eh meio que uma das pessoas mais mágicas que ja vi

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

'In normal life we make do with impoverished language because we only signify superficial relations. As soon as the talk is of deeper relations, there immediately enters another kind of language, i.e. the poetic.'

Heidegger quoting Goethe

[GOETHE @DailyGoethe]

Heidegger über Sprache und Goethe

[Stuart Hameroff @StuartHameroff]

Roger’s use of Goedel’s theorem is not as you say, it simply means an algorithmic theorem cannot prove itself.
Proof requires understanding, knowing, feeling. It must come from outside any classical algorithmic computation, and the only source for noncomputability/feelings is outside classical physics, e.g. collapse of the wavefunction. His solution, objective reduction is a solution for both the hard problem of consciousness and the measurement problem in quantum mechanics.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Penrose's argument, in a nutshell, is that since humans can understand Goedel's theorem, consciousness is uncomputable and physics incomplete. I've always found it quite charming, the idea that understanding Goedel's theorem is an indicator for consciousness, seeing how few people actually understand Goedel's theorem.

In any case, the argument from Goedel's theorem is why, I believe, Penrose thinks that the measurement process in quantum mechanics is relevant for human consciousness. Because it's the only place in the foundations where you can fumble in some new physics that is plausibly relevant in the human brain. Hence the story with the microtubules. And if you believe that, then AI can't be conscious because it's algorithmic. Though presumably a quantum computer could be conscious, if it emuluates the quantum process that is supposedly relevant for consciousness.

(Penrose's model for wavefunction collapse by gravity is totally computable and actually does not fit that narrative.)

Also, I believe Penrose's argument from Goedel's theorem to be technically wrong. It is possible to algorithmically understand (and even prove) Goedel's theorem without violating Goedel's theorem because the theorem itself is a meta-statement about the Goedel sentence(s) and not the sentence itself. In some sense, Penrose's argument is wrong for the same reason Goedel's theorem exists in the first place, that you can make meta-statements about statements. In fact there have been computer-generated symbolic proofs of Goedel's theorem long before the AI boom.

It's not that I have an obsession with Penrose in particular, it just so happens that my interests have a big overlap with his. I have an interview with Penrose in my 2022 book "Existential Physics" on these and related problems.

https://t.co/PB8d8Vidkq

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The quote of the century.

[Chris Satoor​​ @aufgehenderRest]

Derrida (2002) A Documentary Film (The Full Film).
https://t.co/WSCLQhlHRf

[Überkierk @UberKierk]

Tarkovsky, wonderful clip

[Jones Manoel 5050 @jonesmanoel_PE]

Conspiração golpista em curso.

[Kleber Mendonça Filho @kmendoncafilho]

Nunca viram CABRA MARCADO PARA MORRER, de Eduardo Coutinho. 🗣️

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

Martin Heidegger and a Buddhist monk on communism, religion and science.