Kara Connor

_Robert_ wrote:
We do know that quantum mechanical systems are not deterministic but are instead probabilistic. That may give us the idea that we have free will when actually your decisions and choices have probabilities.

I don’t buy that.  It’s too direct contact between different levels of reality: psychological and quantum reality.  I think i…[Read more]

Even the great overlord, AI?

Here’s a take on freewill.  The perception is one of (limited) freedom of choice at any one moment.  This perception is a conscious perception.  This conscious freedom of choice can be further limited or shaped by subconscious factors.

Yet the background physical substrate upon which perception and consciousness “l…[Read more]

🙂 Even A.I. sees no freewill .

Had some sort of mental breakdown and now he’s running a church. Maybe Trump will appoint him as his spiritual advisor.

We heard it here first!

I was going to write something about JP’s new book but it is not worth it.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How Jordan Peterson fooled young men into thinking he’s the world’s smartest man.

I don’t know what to think about Jordan Peterson.  I admire him for standing up to the woke bullies about free speech.  I think his “rules for young men” probably have done a lot of good.  Beyond that, he has said some apparently misogy…[Read more]

Is that two AIs talking to each other?

Yes…..and they are talking about us! 🙂

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week!

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce.

Some really good musicians here.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A new system of Logic could boost Critical Thinking.

This is really interesting, in that it uses Wittgenstein’s definition of the meaning of words – how they are used in real life; in what contexts – in a way that can be understood by computers.  A computer can analyse the way a word is used by humans, and so, its…[Read more]

Manifest is the world of the year. I am not surprised as I have hear so many people claim to be doing it.

Manifesting is what psychologists call ‘magical thinking’ or the general illusion that specific mental rituals can change the world around us.

The BRICS countries replacing the US dollar in international trade needs to be getting more attention. I wonder if anyone in the new Administration is giving it any thought?

Have a great week folks!

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

–Robert A. Wilson

HaHa….This should get interesting.