Eric Holloway

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
January 21, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
ethics, Human value, Instrumental value, Intrinsic value, money}

The Creative Spark

_{An information theory justification for the intrinsic value of human beings} _{Eric Holloway

January 21, 2019

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Ethics, Philosophy of Mind}

Because creativity is unique to humans and irreducible, all human beings have the ability in principle. The fact that a particular human being’s creativity is not in use or is perhaps unusable at present does not mean that that person does not have the ability. Consequently, all humans have at least latent intrinsic instrumental value. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
January 4, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

Tagged
AI Winter, Backpropagation, Brendan Dixon, constrained vision, Data processing, Data processing inequality, Featured, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, The Singularity, the unconstrained vision}

Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence?

_{And then turn us all into super-geniuses, as some AI researchers hope? No, and here's why not} _{Eric Holloway

January 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

Because Moore's law is an exponential law, the numbers multiply rapidly and we could hit the physical limit rather suddenly. Current indications are that Moore’s law’s speed has already slowed or even ceased to be a true description of the IT industry today. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
December 27, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
Featured, Information, Kolmogorov information, meaning, Order, Randomness, Shannon information}

How Can We Measure Meaningful Information?

_{Neither randomness nor order alone creates meaning. So how can we identify communications?} _{Eric Holloway

December 27, 2018

4

Machine Learning}

Dropping a handful of toothpicks on the table seems to produce a different sort of pattern than spelling out a word with toothpicks. Surprisingly, this intuitive distinction is harder to make in math and the sciences. Algorithmic specified complexity (ASC) enables us to distinguish them. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
November 29, 2018

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Agency, Alex Rosenberg, Determinism, Featured, free will, intentionality, Longform, Mind-Brain Distinction, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Reductionism, soul}

Has Neuroscience Disproved Thinking?

_{A philosopher argues that Nobel Prize-winning research shows that the theory of mind is just another illusion, useful for survival and success} _{Eric Holloway

November 29, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind}

We've all seen this sort of argument before in many other guises. It is commonly called “reductionism.” The reductionist claims that, because an object can be construed as made up of parts, the object is just the parts. It is like saying that because an article like this one is constructed from letters of the alphabet, the article is only rows of letters. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
November 5, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
halting oracle, halting problem, Jonathan Bartlett}

Human intelligence as a halting oracle

_{Jonathan Bartlett proposes to model the human mind as a halting oracle} _{Eric Holloway

November 5, 2018

4

Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence}

A common objection to Bartlett’s idea is that humans cannot be halting oracles because we embed any unsolvable math problem as the halting condition for a loop and a human cannot tell us whether the loop will halt or not. This objection misses the fact that there is a range of oracles between plain Turing machines and a complete halting oracle. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
October 16, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Explanatory Filter, Information Theory, Kolmogorov information, Moravec's Paradox, Shannon information, William Dembski}

Does information theory support design in nature?

_{William Dembski makes a convincing case, using accepted information theory principles relevant to computer science} _{Eric Holloway

October 16, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence}

Intelligent design theory is sometimes said to lack any practical application. One straightforward application is that, because intelligence can create information and computation cannot, human interaction will improve computational performance. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
September 19, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Information Theory, Law of Independence Conservation, Leonid Levin, mutual information, Shannon information, Turing Machine}

Artificial intelligence is impossible

_{Meaningful information vs artificial intelligence} _{Eric Holloway

September 19, 2018

4

Artificial Intelligence}

Because the law of independence conservation states that no combination of randomness and determinism can create mutual information, then likewise no Turing machine nor artificial intelligence can create mutual information. Thus, the goal of artificial intelligence researchers to reproduce human intelligence with a computer program is impossible to achieve. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
August 15, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Basener's Ceiling, Gödel's Theorem}

Could One Single Machine Invent Everything?

_{The king’s perpetual innovation machine was all ready to roll but then a skeptic butted in} _{Eric Holloway

August 15, 2018

8

Artificial Intelligence}

Computers can never originate, they only regurgitate. Humans, on the other hand, can come up with original ideas, i.e. they write the programs in the first place. So, my proof shows that the human mind cannot be a computer program. Read More ›