I woke up again!!! Fuck yeah. I get to love my goddess wife play with my epic kids, and think, feel, and express whatever the fuck I want. While being fully embraced by Mother Earth. Supported by an abundant supply of everything I need to thrive in this moment literally projected onto me: air to breath, sun for energy, love for love. Everything… is here for all of us. Because of our infinite, unbreakable, everlasting, all encompassing love.

I’ve read a lot recently on taking responsibility, specifically on retroactively taking responsibility. Ideally, of course, we proactively take responsibility. But this post is not about retroactive responsibility. It is about how to take retroactive responsibility for co-contributing to undesired outcomes. The steps below are essentially a combination of the…

The topic of “learning” often comes up in conversations I’m a part of. Sometimes with scientists (including neuroscientists and cognitive scientists), sometimes engineers (including computer scientists, statisticians, and data scientists), and sometimes lay people (including mystics, poets, and consciousness experts). It seems to me that we are all kind of…

Joshua T. Vogelstein — About me: I am a computational neuroscience by training and profession. I write extensively on intelligence, both natural and artificial variants. Most of my writing addresses academic audiences, but this is a foray to address a larger population. I am not an expert specifically on emotions, but, I do have…

I am not an expert on emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett is. But a friend of mine asked me what are my thoughts on emotions, so I am writing them here. I hope my thoughts motivate the readers to investigate what true experts think. That said, I do consider myself an…

Learning characterizes what a natural or artificial intelligence (hereafter, an intelligence) does to improve its performance on some task. Learning is a theoretical construct that we use to study the behavior of natural and artificial intelligences. In the current formalism, to meaningfully talk about learning requires there to be a…

We make assumptions in math so that we can prove theorems. The theorems justify decision making policies, and learning policies. For example, we have scenario X, and we desire Y. Now, I can prove that algorithm Z has property Y assuming X. Insofar that the current scenario in the real…

I recently started listening to Sam Harris’s “Waking up” App, and specifically the introductory course. I’m now on day 2. I have really enjoyed almost all of it. And, I am aware that my constitution is such that I tend to find little things that can be improved on. So…

To my beloved kids (e.g., before school or bedtime) Daddy: Do you know how much I love you? Kids: infinity! Daddy: Do you know how strong my love is for you? Kids: Unbreakable! Daddy: Do you know how long I’ll love you for? Kids: Forever and ever! Daddy: What do you get to feel/dream today/tonight? Kids: Anything! Daddy: Do…