Turing Machines and Brains…

The Church-Turing Thesis states that any function that is computable can be computed on a Turing machine. Basically, this boils down to computers being able to solve any algorithmic function. Supporters of so-called ’strong’ AI claim that a robot could be built that is ’sentient’ or self-aware. This claim really says something not only about [...]

Classical Scale, Quantum Observation

Quantum results (bilocation, wave/matter smearing, uncertainty) do not occur on the classical scale – that is, the scale on which we as observers exist. We do not observe baseballs, houses and cars following the same patterns that we find in sub-atomic particles. Classical scale objects follow classical rules.
But I did find the exception to that today. [...]

Mathematics and the world

What you think about mathematics (philosophically) is what you think about the world. There are, if you think about it, only three ways of looking at the philosophy of mathematics and taking numbers to exist. Take, for example, two frogs, two beers, two people, two ideas and two decks of cards. What is this ‘twoness’ [...]

Quantum Observation and Observer Created Reality

The discovery of de Broglie waves of matter, the difficulties associated with quantum observation, and Bell’s theorem all conspire to show us that the non-classical physical world in which we live can have various philosophical implications. With the basic conclusions of quantum physics implying that matter (energy) acts like a wave until a measurement is made, at [...]

A foray away from mathematics (for a change)

While bored and surfing the internet the other day I came across yet another post on Evolution and the accompanying argument in the comments between creationists and evolutionists. Frankly, I’m sick of the entire debate. Maybe my thoughts over simplify the situation, but both camps seem to miss the boat entirely. Creationism (in the common [...]