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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Friday, October 31, 2025

Living Life Between the Lines of the Algorithm

Substrate (Interface) Independent Algorithms.... hmmmmmm.

Freedom's (ala "Free Will's") Role in Motivation
Redundancy vs. Degeneracy
(NASA triple redundancy for Manned Space)
Degeneracy = intelligence?
Computational Functionalism by the backdoor?
Consciousness - The Space between the Algorithms?
Cogito is thus not a substantial entity, but a pure structural function, an empty place—as such, it can only emerge in the interstices of substantial communal systems"
-Slavoj Zizek

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yawn.

People finding to themself faint understanding of what *I* learned from Lem... like three decades ago (and that couple decades PAST Lem himself found it and explained), and tried to explain to you here... for how long already??? Three years?

But yeah. That is very interesting, yawn, very NEW to me... NOT.

Yaaaawn.

Anonymous said...

No such thing as free will. Imagined non truth. But, so many believe there is. Came with... I, me, and mine. Ego juice all around.

Anonymous said...

???

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

What do you think of degeneracy vs. redundancy... Systems that fail slowly rather than quickly and having 100% backups (double/triple redundancies). Like when the Voyager computer failed, and they re-routed a few functions and got it running again.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Had it been a manned spacecraft, they would have had triple (vice double) redundancy.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Les, les non-dupes errent.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The space between represents options. The more options, the greater a feeling of freedom. The greater the feeling of feeling, the greater the motivation to select an unfree path and proceed. Yin in the Yang of free will.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Lack of "ego juice" equals "death".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Lessing's son.

Anonymous said...

Techy things. Tinkering.

Anonymous said...

"What is Life from POV of Phisics".

Yawn.

Anonymous said...

No self, unlimited wide open freedom. Identify with nothing and allow no one to identify you.

Simple, yet SOOO hard for most. Let go... be free!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Yep. But the current tech doesn't tinker with itself. If it was capable of degrading slowly... perhaps with the right algorithms it could do so... Redundancy didn't cut it.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The substrates and algorithms were too "rigid'.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The zero-point energy fields between the walls of symbolism and black holes of meaning and matter. The place where the quanta vibrate randomly in the field. ;p

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Character is defined by one's limits. ;p

Much as figure is defined by/ follows colour.

Does anger make you "red"? ;)

Les Carpenter said...

Never felt the need to check.