Tag: Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

A depiction of a landscape inspired by the uncertainty principle, with shapes that appear to shift and blur.

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News
Date
February 16, 2024

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Language, Philosophy of Mind

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Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), Werner Heisenberg}

What If We Lost the Power to Think Abstractly?

_{Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges depicts a character whose total recall prevents him from using abstractions, though he recognizes their existence} _{News
February 16, 2024

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Language, Philosophy of Mind}

Physicist Werner Heisenberg saw in the dilemma of language — the specific vs. the general — an analogy to his famous Uncertainty Principle in physics.

Will Ideas or Algorithms Rule Science Tomorrow?

_{David Krakauer of the Santa Fe Institute offers an unsettling vision of future science as produced by machines that no one really understands} _{News
May 8, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy}

The basic problem is that accepting on faith what we can’t ever hope to understand is not a traditional stance of science. Thus it’s a good question whether science could survive such a transition and still be recognizable to scientists. But does turning things over to incomprehensible algorithms, as Krakauer proposes, really work anyway? Current results from a variety of areas give pause for thought.