Tuesday 1 January 2019

Born to do Math 102 - All Together Now: Hows and Whys as "As If"

Born to do Math 102 - All Together Now: Hows and Whys as "As If"
Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner
January 1, 2019

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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I am getting the sense of the why questions being how questions. Why do we have minds? Because of evolution. How that? If chemistry, then biology, then minds, eventually. So, what you're tapping into is, really, the bridge between those how questions and how they extend more into a why?

Rick Rosner: I kind of think everything boils down to consciousness and information spaces, and also the larger physical processes of the universe. They are "as if" questions. The information of the universe at large and the information of mental worlds.

Both the large information processing structures and the small ones do a lot of stuff that behaves as if they know stuff. The "as if" is enough to embody actual knowing. If you set it up right, it's information processing capacity is far mre than straight up serial processing with integrated circuits clacking along.

It is a setup - the quantum computers - in as if systems. You set up indeterminate states that behave as if in multiple states for a computational purpose. If everything is in an as if state, then everything is in  3-bit quantum computer that runs as if in 8 different states, and then is consistent across all 8 states.

Something like that; I don't know. It seems as if there is a tacitness, an as ifness. The efficiency of as if information, as if knowledge, and as if knowledge-sharing probably exists in the universe at large and in individual minds at the small.

Becuase it is persistently efficient.

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Authors[1]



Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
RickRosner@Hotmail.Com
Rick Rosner

According to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry.

He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man. He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine.

He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter.

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Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
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In-Sight Publishing

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Scott Douglas Jacobsen founded In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal and In-Sight Publishing. He authored/co-authored some e-books, free or low-cost. If you want to contact Scott: Scott.D.Jacobsen@Gmail.com, Scott.Jacobsen@TrustedClothes.Com, Scott@ConatusNews.Com, scott.jacobsen@probc.ca, Scott@Karmik.Ca, or SJacobsen@AlmasJiwaniFoundation.Org.

He is a Moral Courage Webmaster and Outreach Specialist (Fall, 2016) at the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality (Ethics Center), Interview Columnist for Conatus News, Writer and Executive Administrator for Trusted Clothes, Interview Columnist for Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), Chair of Social Media for the Almas Jiwani Foundation, Councillor for the Athabasca University Student Union, Member of the Learning Analytics Research Group, writer for The Voice MagazineYour Political Party of BCProBCMarijuana Party of CanadaFresh Start Recovery CentreHarvest House Ministries, and Little Footprints Big Steps International Development Organization, Editor and Proofreader for Alfred Yi Zhang Photography, Community Journalist/Blogger for Gordon Neighbourhood House, Member-at-Large, Member of the Outreach Committee, the Finance & Fundraising Committee, and the Special Projects & Political Advocacy Committee, and Writer for Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Member of the Lifespan Cognition Psychology Lab and IMAGe Psychology Lab, Collaborator with Dr. Farhad Dastur in creation of the CriticalThinkingWiki, Board Member, and Foundation Volunteer Committee Member for the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation, and Independent Landscaper.

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Endnotes

[1] Four format points for the session article:
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  1. American Psychological Association. (2010). Citation Guide: APA. Retrieved from http://www.lib.sfu.ca/system/files/28281/APA6CitationGuideSFUv3.pdf
  2. Humble, A. (n.d.). Guide to Transcribing. Retrieved from http://www.msvu.ca/site/media/msvu/Transcription%20Guide.pdf

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