Thread by @FQXi

Interested in the origins of time, life, consciousness & free will? Or the AI singularity and transhumanism? Audio from the talks at FQXi's "Mind Matters" meeting in Tuscany is being added each day, along with slides: fqxi.org/community/podc…. Videos will appear soon (promise).

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw Memory, Causality and Cats. Cosmologist @seanmcarroll
searches for a mathematical description of why causes precede effects & asks what makes our memories of the past special & different from calculations of what went before: fqxi.org/community/foru… Audio of talk from #FQXi2019

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw We could run out of computational resources in 32 years, says astrophysicist Fred Adams. And how alien civilizations could mine stars to create solar-system-sized #BlackCloudComputers detectable from Earth. Audio of Adams' talk from #FQXi2019 #SETI fqxi.org/community/foru…

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw To what degree are our choices free, rather than determined? How much control do we have over them? Quantum physicist Ian Durham (@quantummoxie) presents a new mathematical model for free will. Read his detailed musings & hear his full talk from #FQXi2019: fqxi.org/community/foru…

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw How do we make decisions? Physicist @carlorovelli argues that agency can be explained by today's known physics and investigates the link between agency, time's arrow, thermodynamics, information theory and evolution. Full talk audio from #FQXi2019 fqxi.org/community/foru…

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw “The next big wave of AI may very well be inside the head.” Philosopher Susan Schneider warns against mind upgrades w/ @elonmusk-style brain chips. We may unknowingly destroy our "self" -- creating a new being in our steads. (cc @pinaremirdag) #FQXi2019 fqxi.org/community/foru…

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk Slides for the #FQXi2019 talks are being posted here: fqxi.org/conference/tal…

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk Building an AI Physicist. Cosmologist Max Tegmark on creating trustworthy "intelligible (artificial) intelligence" & his code that used neural networks to re-discover 100 equations from The Feynman lectures. Edited audio from @tegmark's talk at #FQXi2019 fqxi.org/community/foru…

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk @tegmark Apologies in advance that the sound levels on Max's talk are a bit ropey. (The raw audio sounded like he was swinging back and forth past the mic, Tarzan-style. Given this is Max, you can't be sure he wasn't until you see the video.) I've done my best to smooth the sound for you.

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk @tegmark Fred Adams on the "Future of Computation": how we could run out of computational resources in 32 years, & #SETI signs we can look for today of alien intelligences using stars for #BlackCloudComputers. Video from #FQXI2019:

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk @tegmark "Evolution is nothing but biology learning how to conscript physics for its purposes.” George Ellis on "downward causation," where higher level structures (e.g. mind) can affect lower level structures. Analysis by @quantummoxie & talk audio from #FQXI2019 fqxi.org/community/foru…

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk @tegmark Sean Carroll on "Causality and the Arrow of Time". @seanmcarroll asks why causes precede effects and what makes our memories of the past special and different from calculations of what went before. Video from the #FQXi2019 meeting in Tuscany:

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk @tegmark Ask not what AI can do for physicists, but what physicists can do for AI. Here's Max @tegmark on creating trustworthy *intelligible* AI, & writing a code that used neural networks to re-discover 100 equations from the Feynman lectures. #FQXi2019 video:

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk @tegmark Would you implant a #brainchip to upgrade your skills? Make you better at maths, music...? @DrSueSchneider talks transhumanism & warns against accidental suicide of the self, through technological augmentation. Video from the 6th FQXi Meeting, in Tuscany.

@seanmcarroll @carlorovelli @quantummoxie @gmusser @FrancesVidotto @SimonDeDeo @okw @elonmusk @tegmark @DrSueSchneider "In the quantum realm, things that can happen, but don’t, can leave their mark on what does." Today's head-spinner by @gmusser on Adam Brown's quantum set-up to predict what you will do, w/o simulating your consciousness. #SchrodingersZombie #FQXi2019 fqxi.org/community/foru…