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 [Trueai.blogspot.com] True Artificial Intelligence: For the mathematically inclined, what I am claiming is that consciousness is the process of optimising an objective function using a brain, where the objective function is given as a complicated weighted combination of our instincts, and the optimization is done using the forward Euler method performed in the neocortex. Obviously, the no free will objection is still valid, but the main afgument for this theory is that it is extremely simple and does not rely on voodoo concepts like "elementary particles of conciousness" and "microtubular bridges between the quantum world and the classical world".

 [Blogs.adobe.com] The World Behind the Glass: Old versus New AI: IBM and EPFL are pursuing this to some degree by modelling the neocortex. For the development of, what is stated here as Artificial Intelligence, .

 [Vetta.org] the vetta project: The other day I was thinking about these things again, however this time I was wondering about the difference between artificial intelligence and human intelligence. I saw a paper recently claiming that each human eye sends about 1MB of data to the brain per second.

 [<3rd eYe>] Lying "ayes": Other high-tech deception detectors ”” many of them capable of remote operation, so they could theoretically be used without a suspect's knowledge ”” are being developed at laboratories across the country, with financing from agencies like Dodpi, the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Department officials will not reveal the amount they spend on credibility assessment, nor the degree to which the budget has increased since 9/11, because some of the research is classified.) The detectors look for increases in physiological processes that are associated with lying: a sniffer test that measures levels of stress hormones on the breath, for instance, a pupillometer that measures pupil dilation and a near-infrared-light beam that measures blood flow to the cerebral cortex.

 [Noise Filter] Will knowing the truth mean freedom?: The majority also believe that liars squirm, stutter, touch or scratch themselves or tell longer stories than usual. The liar stereotype exists in just about every culture, Bond wrote, and its persistence "would be less puzzling if we had more reason to imagine that it was true." What is true, instead, is that there are as many ways to lie as there are liars;

 [MediaTalks] New Year's Eve: It is great having the chance of experiencing the next year; however I was never fond of noisy and pompous celebration of the New Year’s Eve.

 [lawnorder] The J Curve: Thanks for the Memory: The cortex is relatively new development by evolutionary time scales. After a long period of simple reflexes and reptilian instincts, only mammals evolved a neocortex, and in humans it usurped some functionality (e.g., motor control) from older regions of the brain.

[Smart Software] On Intelligence: Over my lifetime, I developed a set of unintuitive tenets from studying various disciplines such as psychology, economics, biology, statistics, computer science and so on. These tenets hold that from simple, unintelligent forces can emerge efficient, complex, and seemingly intelligent behavior.

 [The J Curve] Thanks for the Memory: While reading Jeff Hawkins’ book On Intelligence, I was struck by the resonant coherence of his memory-prediction framework for how the cortex works. It was like my first exposure to complexity theory at the Santa Fe Institute - providing a perceptual prism for the seeing the consilience across various scientific conundrums.

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