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Carlos E. Perez

@IntuitMachine

22 Jan

Knowledge captures our Known Knowns and Known Unknowns. Unknown Unknowns expresses our ignorance. Unknown Knowns reveal the realness of our Intuition.

Knowable Knowns are inferred by Deduction. Knowable Unknowns are inferred by Abduction. Unknowable Knowns is a feature of Universal Computation. Unknowable Unknowns is the shadow that is cast by the Implicate Order.

The process of mastery begins with the Unknown Unknown. Followed by the experience of the Known Unknown. The practice of the Known Known. To find mastery in the state of the Unknown Known.

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Carlos E. Perez

@IntuitMachine

20 Jan

Investment rule of thumb: If a company is run by an MBA type CEO, then don't invest!

This idea is shared by both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.

The problem with MBA type CEOs is that they don't have a deep understanding of what a company does. To efficiently deeply financial resources to drive growth, you need a deep first principled understanding, and that only comes from being in the trenches.

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Carlos E. Perez

@IntuitMachine

19 Jan

The Nature versus Nurture is a debate about scientific doctrine. It is a debate about the correct way of explanation for cognition.

The Representation versus Non-Representation shares the same debate. It is also about the correct way of explanation for cognition.

It is also the difference between thinking in nouns versus thinking in verbs. Nature and Representation have deep roots in Western thinking. It is a functionalist and reductionist way of thinking that meets its limits when analyzing complex adaptive systems.

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Carlos E. Perez

@IntuitMachine

18 Jan

Why does cognitivism insist on representations and enactivism insist on non-representations? Is there something subtle going on that isn't obvious?

I'm reading 'Catching Ourselves in the Act' and it sure as hell adamant that there are no-representations in cognition. amazon.com/Catching-Ourse…

We all have the intuitive notion that a simulation is not the same as the real thing. Why? Because our intuition tells us that something that emulates how something looks (i.e. representation) is not the same as the real thing.

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Carlos E. Perez

@IntuitMachine

18 Jan

We have an antiquated notion of free speech that breaks down in an environment where a sucker is born every microsecond.

The founding fathers could not imagine that your attention could be hijacked from inside the comfort of your home. Their only notion of information dissemination was exclusively through a town square.

The constitution writers could never have imagined the Nigerian scam. That is, the most outrageous of a lie would be a mechanism for the gullible to self-identify.

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