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…dor composers such as William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, and the works of Grieg all use sequences of chords that move from one to the next using substitution rules. If you were to listen to the steps in our word substitution music, they would definitely sound musical. I think they s...

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…is of society in terms of its propagation of ideas also gave Wiener a guideline for social criticism. A healthy society—one that gives its members the means to pursue life in defiance of entropy—allows information sensed and contributed by its members to feed back and affect how...

…National Security Agency. He took full responsibility for the theft of classified documents, saying that he had acted alone. He said that he had been forced to take these documents to expose a crime that threatened the freedom of Americans: the US government’s illegal surveillanc...

…val 3/4 Yitzhak Rabin's Moral Answer to the Israeli Dilemma of Peace and Survival - US News binational state in which one people ruled another. He was uniquely qualified for this adventure. Those to his political right had the strength but not the will to take a calculated ris...

…rget clockwork analogies; our brains are closer to a system of canals and locks, with signals traveling like water from one state to another. As I sit here typing, I’m actually seeking equilibrium states in an n-dimensional topology of gradients. Take just one: heat. My body tem...

down the line. “Obviously, the class is one of the biggest developments in cardiology in the last decade, that will allow us to treat patients who have been extremely difficult to treat with high levels of LDL cholesterol,” says Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiology at the Cleve...

…equipped to do. But then he paused, looked intently at Rabin, Dan and me, and said: “What I can do is draw on history.” One by one, he cited examples of more than a dozen broadly similar rebellions over the past century, in the Middle East and beyond. “If we were dealing with sim...

…o it than that? Roger Penrose and David Deutsch think understanding allows us to transfer non-symbolic information from one brain to another. We don't run programs in our brains, nor do we store precise information such as lists and tables. We have, therefore, had to evolve a cre...

objects and processes look like and how they interact. Concepts are probably one of the top layers of the learning hierarchy, i.e. they are acquired *after* we learn to simulate a mental world, not before. Classical linguists ignored the simulation of a mental world entirely. I...

…iming, and displacement of “some six million Southeast Asians.” Berrigan referred to the ironic figure of 6 million as “one of those peculiar facts which must be called free-floating” and concluded with a veiled threat to both American Jews and to Israel: “To put the matter bruta...

…er. I didn't know you also had lefkowitz. I met the guy once when a prospective client asked me to try a case with him. One meeting was enough for me to see clearly that that would not have worked out well; but he apparemtly is a successful lawyer. One thing for sure the article...

…ic good. Some of the deepest pockets are voluntarily out in front of these obligations to serve society first and make money secondarily, but we shouldn’t rely on good will alone. We don’t need artificial conscious agents. There is a surfeit of natural conscious agents, enough t...

Brad and Jeffrey, Gagosian has one final change to the Picasso agreement. As you know, we have structured this agreement with the Buyer as either Narrows Holdings LLC or AP Narrows LP, and given both of those entities the right to assign the agreement to any one among Leon, Debr...

…edge repository. Comparing these diagrams to the integrative human cognitive architecture diagrams given in Chapter 5, one sees the main difference is that the CogPrime diagrams commit to specific structures (e.g. knowledge representations) and processes, whereas the generic int...