Notes for the Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul - Rudy Rucker

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Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker Fredkin’s Billiard Ball Computer ....................................................................... 58 Schrödinger’s Wave Equation ............................................................................ 58 Randomness ........................................................................................................ 58 Dumping on Entanglement ................................................................................. 59 Unfinished Summary of Chapter Two................................................................ 59 Human language and the hierarchy of programming languages. ....................... 59 Microcode and BIOS .......................................................................................... 60 Everything is a Program...................................................................................... 61 Activator-Inhibitor CA Rule............................................................................... 61 Kaneko-Abraham Rule ....................................................................................... 61 Artificial Life ...................................................................................................... 62 Telerobotics......................................................................................................... 62 Code Growth Analogy ........................................................................................ 63 Walker’s Brag About His Server’s Homeostasis................................................ 63 RNA Evolution ................................................................................................... 64 Scripting computer games................................................................................... 64 Don’t Worry About Biotech. .............................................................................. 65 Class Four Time Series ....................................................................................... 65 Weinberg’s Put-Down ........................................................................................ 65 Frankenstein........................................................................................................ 65 Architectures....................................................................................................... 66 Von Neumann Self-Reproduction....................................................................... 67 Wolfram On Discovering CAs............................................................................ 68 Parallel ................................................................................................................ 69 Web as Mind....................................................................................................... 70 Logistic Map ....................................................................................................... 70 Annealing Schedule ............................................................................................ 70 Self-Deprecating Remark Introducing Chapter 4 ............................................... 71 Continuous Response.......................................................................................... 71 Sigmoid Neurons ................................................................................................ 71 My Anti-Beige Agenda....................................................................................... 72 Brain Surgery...................................................................................................... 72 Good News Bad News........................................................................................ 73 Back Propagation as a Computation................................................................... 73 Technical Problem with Running BZ on a Network Instead of on a CA ........... 73 Back-propagation Momentum Term................................................................... 74 Game AI.............................................................................................................. 74 Incomprehensible Solutions................................................................................ 75 Unsupervised Learning Raps .............................................................................. 75 Exhortatory Slobber to Cover Up Intellectual Bankruptcy................................. 76 Two-Year-Old Rebellion .................................................................................... 76 Mercury Delay Lines .......................................................................................... 76 Robot Emotions .................................................................................................. 76 Nonlinear Brain Waves....................................................................................... 77 Brain Neuron Rules?........................................................................................... 77 Consciousness Isn’t Hardware or Software ........................................................ 77 p. 4
Notes for The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker Extra Damasio Quote.......................................................................................... 77 Game creature psychology.................................................................................. 77 Snail and dog consciousness............................................................................... 78 Magpie ................................................................................................................ 78 Fruits of Reason .................................................................................................. 78 Class 3 Thoughts?............................................................................................... 78 Comparing Gibson to a Lifebox ......................................................................... 78 Wattahertz Evolution .......................................................................................... 78 Why I Quit Teaching .......................................................................................... 79 Freewill ............................................................................................................... 79 Recovery-Group-Tinged Rap About God and Free Will.................................... 79 Enlightenment Is... .............................................................................................. 80 Computers Don’t Get Bored ............................................................................... 80 Word Virus.......................................................................................................... 81 The Use of Logic ................................................................................................ 81 Sand and Books................................................................................................... 81 Caption for Photo with Nick Herbert.................................................................. 82 Rant at Start of Chapter on Society..................................................................... 82 Joy of Hacking .................................................................................................... 82 Peace March Safety Example of Enjoying a Crowd........................................... 82 Games and Flocking ........................................................................................... 82 Self Reference..................................................................................................... 82 I Want More Influence........................................................................................ 82 Twin Towers ....................................................................................................... 83 Emigration........................................................................................................... 83 Artificial Life ...................................................................................................... 83 The multiversal web............................................................................................ 83 I’m a Rebel.......................................................................................................... 83 Losing the Search for Infinity Deal .................................................................... 84 Extra Rows for the Excitation Table................................................................... 84 The Starwars CA................................................................................................. 84 Examples of News Stories .................................................................................. 86 Life is Hard at Every Level................................................................................. 86 Power Law Notes................................................................................................ 86 Inverse Power Law Examples............................................................................. 88 Zipf’s Law Table................................................................................................. 90 Web Hype ........................................................................................................... 92 Memes................................................................................................................. 92 Bifurcation .......................................................................................................... 92 On my McLuhanizing......................................................................................... 92 Table of Emulations............................................................................................ 92 Predicting a Baseball........................................................................................... 93 Dig at Theoretical Computer Scientists .............................................................. 93 Self-mocking addendum to footnote on Complexity Classes............................. 94 Limits of Philosophy........................................................................................... 94 Computations vs. Thoughts ................................................................................ 94 p. 5
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