I’ve just found out an interesting MIT course on Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science with code 6.893 and thought by Scott Aaronson. The most attractive part of this course for me was articles included in the reading list of the web page. There are great articles in that list: Scott Aaronson, NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Philosophy’
Hypercomputation
20 Dec 2010 at 21:36
caglar
Artificial Intelligence, complexity, Computer Science, Philosophy, science
You think that anything computable can be computed with a Turing machine. Now forget about Church-Turing Thesis for a while and ladies and gentlemen, here comes the HyperComputers!: Christof Teuscher et al, 2002, Hypercomputation: hype or computation? Copeland and Proudfoo, Alan Turing’s Forgotten ideas, 1999, Scientific American Selim G. Akl, The Myth of Universal computation, [...]
Reverse-Engineering the Natural Phenomena
23 Oct 2010 at 20:25
caglar
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Philosophy, Psychology, science, Technology
I will try to be both speculative and provocative in this post, to be able encourage people to think from a different point of view. Don’t bother me but I might be wrong and assert wrong claims. Because while writing these sentences I tried to depend on other resources as less as I can, to [...]
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
25 Sep 2010 at 08:19
caglar
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Philosophy, science
Today I checked my notebook and noticed a note that I took 2 years ago. Two years ago I noted that “Read Scott Aaronson’s lecture notes which is titled as ‘Quantum Computing Since Democritus’ “. Yesterday I checked this lecture’s site and decided that it is really worth reading. Here is the description of the [...]
Should Mathematics be Done Differently Because of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem?
Nowadays Vinay Deolalikar’s claimed proof of p versus np problem is being discussed in many blogs and in many different platforms. And with the light of these discussions, my interests in theoretical computer science and math is awakened . Hence I wanted to write something about mathematics (Although I’m not a mathematician but always have [...]
The Last Answer
Here comes the second short story of Isaac Asimov: Note: This short story is taken from here. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — © 1980 Murray Templeton was forty-five years old, in the prime of life, and with all parts of his body in perfect working order except for certain key portions of his [...]
The Last Question
Beside being a genius, “Isaac Asimov” was surely one of the most fascinating science fiction author of his age. He had written many good novels like Robot and Foundation series. But beside his novels, he had written many thought provoking short stories as well. “The Last Question” was one of them. About this short story, [...]
Scooping the Loop Snooper
Today I’ve just found a great and very strange proof of the halting problem by the famous philosopher and linguist Geoffrey Pullum. It is so simple yet logically accurate. You can also access the original version of this proof from the Geoffrey Pullum’s web page in University of Edinburgh. What makes this proof more interesting [...]
Distributed Cognition
Distributed Cognition Distributed cognition is a psychological theory which is developed during the mid 1980s by Edwin Hutchins. Distributed cognition uses the different views from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology. It basically emphasizes the social aspects of cognition. It is a framework rather than a method which involves the co-ordination between individuals and artifacts. [...]
Infinite regress
Infinite regress, is a very interesting and fun to play with kind of a topic. Let’s look at the Wikipedia definition of infinite regress: An infinite regress in a series of propositions arises if the truth of proposition P1 requires the support of proposition P2, and for any proposition in the series Pn, the truth [...]
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