Walter Pitts and Warren S McCulloch, two mathematicians, published ‘A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity’ in the Journal of Mathematical Biophysics. They described the behavior of human neurons with the help of simple logical functions that inspired an English mathematician ...
How Does Generative AI Work? There are two answers to the question of how generative AI models work. Empirically, we know how they work in detail because humans designed their various neural network implementations to do exactly what they do, iterating those designs over decades to make them ...
I knew I had gone deep into researching the End Times when I came across the phrase “immanentize the eschaton,” which—forgive me—sounds like something Han Solo would do to fix the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon. The actual meaning of the phrase? To “…bring about the…the ...
What is largely missing, however, is a thorough discussion of the understanding of resilience on a much more general level: Do we think that resilience is an ability a system can acquire, a process a system can conduct or a measure of a system's performance under pressure? And what does ...
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Can we point to anyone as a true example of someone who is always good and also always gets the point? If not, does that mean there is no true good, and no true point? Why do we have this feeling that there is more to life than merely surviving or running according to our genetic...
What Does It Matter? Christopher K. Germer To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations. . . . —Emily Dickinson (1872) Psychotherapists are in the business of alleviating emotional suf fering. Suffering arrives in innumerable guises: as stress, anxiety, dep...
acknowledged,‘Non-rational creatures do not look before or after, but live in the animal eternity of a perpetual present; instinct is their animal grace and constant inspiration; and they are never tempted to live otherwise than in accord with their own…immanent law’(The Perennial Philosophy,...
This cause was mainly seen as the material cause substrate of a thing, also serving as its immanent cause: so a seed is the immanent cause that contains the tree and its fruit. So the entire trajectory of a thing's development always exists within its own ground as a potentiality ...