Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, AZ: Thnx #DrAhmedBanafa: how could #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch best code a #WUaSblockchain for all 7.9 billion people in all ~200 countries, for the #WUaSEducationalServicesStores @WUaSPress, each a Wikidata PIN # from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University w Pi https://minepi.com/sgkmac ? * * * Castells, Manuel. 2001. [https://archive.org/details/internetgalaxyre00cast The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society].(READ it for FREE ONLINE at https://archive.org/ - https://archive.org/details/internetgalaxyre00cast). NY, NY: Oxford UP. BUILDING OUT: #WUaSUnivLibraries https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources * * * What are #The5Resets for #HMS's @DrAditiNerukar? 1 Get Clear on What Matters Most 2 Find Quiet in a Noisy World 3 Sync Your Brain & Your Body 4 Come Up for Air 5 Bring Your Best Self Forward A conversation with #Yoga ~ (#WUaSYoga)? * * * David Chalmers @davidchalmers42 - The integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) is often said to be incompatible with computational functionalism, and to entail that AI systems ... * * AND REGARDING - ! #ToolifyAI created: "#RevolutionizingEducation with #MachineLearningandAI" : #WUaSunivs https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 ~#ToolifyAIWUaS but it has not yet created #RealisticVirtualEarth


Dear Dr. Banafa, MIT Horizon, All, 

Thanks for your helpful and edifying MIT Horizon blockchain talk just now. Here are the questions I asked in the Q&A, which MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, planned in each of 200 countries, and in their main languages, for free to students' MIT OCW-centric WUaS Degrees, would be interested in following up on with time: 

"Thanks so much, Dr. Banafa, How would you suggest introducing 'BlockChain' (s) in the ~25 out of about 200 countries' Arabic language world, eg as these ~25 governments' block chains (eg Yemen blockchain, Saudi Arabia blockchain - and in Arabic) develop, and for citizen's security etc re their blockchain use (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States)?  


Thanks so much, Dr. Banafa, how could MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch best code a WUaS blockchain for all 7.9 billion people in all 200 countries, and for speakers of all 7164 known living languages as WUaS blockchain end users, from here, each person on the planet a Wikidata PIN # - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - (and regarding Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency’s blockchain too, eg accessible here - https://minepi.com/sgkmac - and where WUaS has a partnering letter from Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency)? Thanks, Scott GK MacLeod"


Here's a further related question as a set of Tweets retweeting MIT Open Learning  -

Thnx #DrAhmedBanafa: how could #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch best code a #WUaSblockchain for all 7.9 billion people in all ~200 countries, for the #WUaSEducationalServicesStores @WUaSPress, each a Wikidata PIN # from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University w Pi https://minepi.com/sgkmac ?









Languages at WUaS - all 7164 living languages  



Retweeting -

MIT Open Learning
@mitopenlearning
Will blockchain revolutionize business? On July 17, discover why this disruptor has the potential to enhance security, foster new business models, and transform industries.

⛓️ Don't miss these insights: https://bit.ly/3S6c83s


AND WUaS would be interested in coding a blockchain in an emerging realistic virtual earth and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article 
Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool


Again with the beginning WUaS Educational Services' Stores  here http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and this being the beginning of a realistic virtual earth as #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs (the ethnographic field site for my first large book) - 
in Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI and potentially (with little Pegman becoming even #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords, for all 7.9 billion people on the planet too).


Best wishes, thanks, all the best, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod 



Here's the beginning of MIT OCW-centric wiki Yemen World Univ & Sch - 
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yemen - planned in Arabic and other Yemen languages for free to students' MIT OCW-centric WUaS Degrees from home. 



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Twitter - 
In a related vein, and if anyone is interested in 'blockchain,' which WUaS will seek to engage in partnering with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency, and in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, and in all ~200 countries, here's a MIT Open Learning online Meeting on W July 17, which I found on Twitter recently ...

MIT Open Learning
@mitopenlearning

Will blockchain revolutionize business? On July 17, discover why this disruptor has the potential to enhance security, foster new business models, and transform industries.

⛓️ Don't miss these insights: https://bit.ly/3S6c83s
https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7UQlr5K-SPW9GHQV7VXdQw#/registration 
https://x.com/mitopenlearning/status/1812535805979525551


Blockchain is a disruptive technology with the potential to transform industries, enhance security protocols, and foster new business models. San Jose State University Professor Ahmed Banafa will explore the future of blockchain technology and examine challenges facing blockchain with real-life cases, offering insight into its potential to revolutionize the tech and business world.




MIT Open Learning
@mitopenlearning

Will blockchain revolutionize business? On July 17, discover why this disruptor has the potential to enhance security, foster new business models, and transform industries.

⛓️ Don't miss these insights: https://bit.ly/3S6c83s

https://x.com/mitopenlearning/status/1812535805979525551


Please continue MIT Open Learning
@mitopenlearning and MIT Horizon to let people know about upcoming events on Twitter/X eg with https://x.com/mitopenlearning/status/1812535805979525551
 
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Castells, Manuel. 2001. [https://archive.org/details/internetgalaxyre00cast The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society].(READ it for FREE ONLINE at https://archive.org/ -  https://archive.org/details/internetgalaxyre00cast). NY, NY: Oxford UP. BUILDING OUT: #WUaSUnivLibraries  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources.

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1813679884851675645







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Castells, Manuel. 2001. [https://archive.org/details/internetgalaxyre00cast The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society].(Read it for free online at https://archive.org/ -  https://archive.org/details/internetgalaxyre00cast). NY, NY: Oxford UP. Just added to #WUaSLibraries  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources.


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What are #The5Resets for #HMS's @DrAditiNerukar?
1 Get Clear on What Matters Most
2 Find Quiet in a Noisy World
3 Sync Your Brain & Your Body
4 Come Up for Air
5 Bring Your Best Self Forward 
A conversation with #Yoga ~ (#WUaSYoga)?


MacLeod, Scott GK. 2024. 

What are #The5Resets for #HMS's @DrAditiNerukar?
1 Get Clear on What Matters Most
2 Find Quiet in a Noisy World
3 Sync Your Brain & Your Body
4 Come Up for Air
5 Bring Your Best Self Forward https://www.draditi.com/the-five-resets-book
A conversation with #Yoga ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga (#WUaSYoga)?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1813566980412280899

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1813568589951299662

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https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1813569894836830450



Languages - all 7164 known living languages at WUaS - 

Pittsburgh, PA: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/relaxation%20response and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga.



Retweeting -

HMS physician Aditi Nerurkar on toxic resilience and how gratitude and focused breathing can rewiring your brain’s response to mental tension (via @bighthink)

https://x.com/harvardmed/status/1813338825122287898

https://bigthink.com/perception-box/aditi-nerurkar/


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the integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) is often said to be incompatible with computational functionalism, and to entail that AI systems (including e.g. brain simulations) running on computers with a von neumann architecture can't be conscious. why?

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the integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) is often said to be incompatible with computational functionalism, and to entail that AI systems (including e.g. brain simulations) running on computers with a von neumann architecture can't be conscious. why? on a first look, these claims are surprising or at least unobvious, given that IIT is specified in terms of properties of (combinatorial) probabilistic automata (PAs): finite sets of units each with a finite set of states and probabilistic state transitions between these. (IIT calls these combinatorial PAs "networks" or "substrates".) PAs are paradigmatic computational systems. in fact, hilary putnam used them as the basis for his original machine functionalism (=computational functionalism) in 1967. standardly, a given PA can be implemented on many architectures, including von neumann systems. e.g. a five-unit PA can be implemented by five memory units in a von neumann system, with the CPU serving as part of the background machinery that connects these units with appropriate probabilities. these units will obey all the counterfactuals about state transitions standardly required to implement the PA. one might have thought that if IIT associates a given PA with non-zero phi, it would also associate any implementation of that PA with non-zero phi. but this claim plus the previous claim (there are von neumann implementations of the relevant PAs) together entail that a von neumann system could have non-zero phi (and could therefore be conscious), which IIT proponents deny. can anyone point me to a good explanation of the anti-functionalist implications of IIT? the closest i've seen is a passage in christof koch's book "the feeling of life itself", in a chapter on "why computers can't experience?". after giving a reasonably clear explanation of why feedforward systems have zero phi (which is not under dispute here), koch turns to establishing the same thing for digital computer simulations. at the crucial point in the argument (p. 148 on "black-boxing"), koch cites a paper by findlay and colleagues (Findlay, G., Marshall, W., Albantakis, L., Mayner, W., Koch, C., & Tononi, G. (2019). Can computers be conscious? Dissociating functional and phenomenal equivalence). this paper seems to be still unpublished and unavailable online (aside from a related and unhelpful abstract at ceur-ws.org/Vol-2287/short). the most recent IIT paper (IIT 4.0) has a single sentence on this issue, and cites the same unpublished paper along with a link to an "intrinsic ontology wiki" which has no content. the explanation presumably turns on the conditions under IIT takes a given physical system to implement or realize a given probabilistic automaton -- an issue which is itself notoriously obscure in IIT (for one critique, see arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04321). for example, perhaps IIT could stipulate (nonstandardly) that the physical realization of a multi-unit system must be parallel rather than serial, or it might rule out the use of a common element (such as a CPU) in realizing the causal connection between the units. i did have a useful conversation about this with giulio tononi a few years ago, where he appealed to constraints on the causal connections between units. as i recall, he suggested that these connections have to be grounded in intrinsic causal powers of the units, unaided by extrinsic elements such as a CPU. this is a very strong condition that might rule out all sorts of systems, arguably including neural systems (whose causal connections seem to be grounded in a combination of the intrinsic powers of neurons and extrinsic synaptic processes connecting neurons). it's also not obvious how one would formalize this constraint, and i haven't seen it spelled out anywhere. it would be nice to know if there is a full published explanation of the anti-functionalist consequences of IIT somewhere, based on clear and well-defined principles of IIT. in the absence of such an explanation, i will continue to think of IIT as consistent with computational functionalism!

at the crucial point in the argument (p. 148 on "black-boxing"), koch cites a paper by findlay and colleagues (Findlay, G., Marshall, W., Albantakis, L., Mayner, W., Koch, C., & Tononi, G. (2019). Can computers be conscious? Dissociating functional and phenomenal equivalence). this paper seems to be still unpublished and unavailable online (aside from a related and unhelpful abstract at
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2287/short7.pdf

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What is phi? phi in consciousness studies philosophy

To quantify the degree of consciousness of any system (not just a biological nervous system), IIT introduces the concept of Φ (phi). Phi measures the amount of integrated information in a system (more specifically, a maximum of irreducible, intrinsic cause-effect power).

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202310/an-intriguing-and-controversial-theory-of-consciousness-iit#:~:text=To%20quantify%20the%20degree%20of,intrinsic%20cause%2Deffect%20power).


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CONSCIOUSNESS
An Intriguing and Controversial Theory of Consciousness: IIT
Let’s dissect the appeal and criticism of integrated information theory. IIT.
Updated November 25, 2023 |  Reviewed by Ray Parker


KEY POINTS

IIT suggests that consciousness arises from the integration of information in a system.

Controversially, IIT implies a form of panpsychism: consciousness as a fundamental property of the universe.

Critics counter that integrated information may be necessary but not sufficient for consciousness.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202310/an-intriguing-and-controversial-theory-of-consciousness-iit






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