One of my ex-colleague remarked on Facebook today about the limits of language models in terms of their ability to acquire knowledge. Out of a
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Category: Consciousness
Can Machines Be Conscious
I have not been writing content on this blog for a long time. Partly because I have been busy with other stuff. Partly because I
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A Review of the Emotion Machine
I finished reading the emotion machine at last today. I wrote a review of it on goodreads. You may kindly peruse the review here. The
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Neural Correlates of Experience
I remember I wrote about spontaneity a few years back on this blog. I remember how I was thinking about it one day and eventually
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When Hope Can be Wrong
Hope is taught as a great thing. Especially, when you are confronted with adversity, you can expect to receive this advice to be hopeful from
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Is Good Better or the Great
One thing that has baffled me for the better part of my life is the question that whether good is better or the great? I
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Legitimized Corruption
One should not grow up to have ideological differences with power brokers. This kind of mindset has consequences on the human personality. For one thing,
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Neural Correlates of Belief
We have been working on some of Sam Harris’s Ph.D. thesis. The idea is to see how religious beliefs affect consciousness. Here is our research
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Mummifying Content
A friend posted a rather long status update on Facebook. People conceive ideas and they feel compelled to convey them to others. The irony of
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Not So Cool!
I can be a weird thinker at times. I have to spend considerable time in solitude. Solitude is better for me, even if I don’t
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