Tag Archives: Seth Lloyd

Communal Intelligence: A Talk By Seth Lloyd

Posted on October 29, 2019 by PlatoHagel

By Dmitry Rozhkov – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link We haven’t talked about the socialization of intelligence very much. We talked a lot about intelligence as being individual human things, yet the thing that distinguishes humans from other animals … Continue reading →

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Embodied Cognition and iCub

Posted on May 28, 2012 by PlatoHagel

An iCub robot mounted on a supporting frame. The robot is 104 cm high and weighs around 22 kg An iCub is a 1 metre high humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence. Systems that perceive, … Continue reading →

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION?

Posted on January 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Scientists’ greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way. These explanations are called “beautiful” or “elegant”. Historical examples are Kepler’s explanation of complex planetary … Continue reading →

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Quantum suicide and immortality

Posted on October 6, 2010 by PlatoHagel

But for the first time, quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that memories of entanglement can survive its destruction. He compares the effect to Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights: “the spectral Catherine communicates with her … Continue reading →

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Where Susskind leaves off, Seth Lloyd begins

Posted on September 14, 2009 by PlatoHagel

A picture, a photograph, or a painting is not the real world that it depicts. It’s flat, not full with three dimensional depth like the real thing. Look at it from the side-almost edge on. It doesn’t look anything like … Continue reading →

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Images of Super-Kamiokande events from tscan

Posted on April 1, 2008 by PlatoHagel

The Navier-Stokes equations are also of great interest in a purely mathematical sense. Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have yet to prove that in three dimensions solutions always exist (existence), or that if they do … Continue reading →

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