Philosophy → Watching the Split
Concepts
Every aside in this section, in one place.
Every page and every aside in this section. Dotted terms open in place.
The line of thought
- An invitation
- And then there was light
- Two inversions
- Unfold your scepticism
- Excess potential
- Solve or observe
- Ups and downs
- Folding as union of extremes
- The honest limit
- And then there was AI
- The spiral, not the circle
- Eternal life
- The open edge, and the handoff
Aside pages
How this is published →Unfolding with examples →My Big TOE, analysed →The hard problem, worked through →The creeds →The rhyme →The real enemy →The sugar trap →The streak →The acorns →The moth →The tree →The room they grow in →Rules about almost-nothing →
People and ideas
The hard problem of consciousnessThe philosophical zombieDaniel DennettPanpsychismThe combination problemHorn A and Horn BVadim ZelandExcess potentialAikidoHal Hershfield: the vivid future selfHyperbolic discountingHerman Pontzer: constrained energy expenditureThomas Kirkwood: the disposable somaDonald Hoffman: interface theoryGödelCantorGödel's fork: consistent or completeThe mystic's wall and the mathematician's moveThe Lucas–Penrose argumentThe halting problemThe axiom of choiceP versus NP, and 42Paraconsistent logicNo free lunchFeynman on fragile knowledgeThe egg of Columbus
Machinery from Folding
The seedPath compressionUnion, literallyThe number eThe reader of the address is the addressReality as fullBekenstein and the holographic boundThe up-spiralDead zones
Motifs and earlier pages
We explain a model, not the wholeTo be, or not to beA joke is a foldThe joy of unfoldingProportion: the BaciNatural ProcessFolding