The Multiverse According to Ben

This is a brief addendum to a post I made a while back where I gave a casual but mathematical discussion of will and reflective awareness i...

I just returned from 2.5 weeks in the Orient ... a week in Japan, doing biz meetings, going to a virtual worlds conference, seeing an awesom...

Eureeka!! -- The Underlying Logic Unifying Quantum Theory and General Relativity, Revealed Over a Plate of Sour Fish Consumed Over South Chi...

I’ve been reading up on the iCub open-source humanoid robot lately, and I think it’s pretty exciting. Given what open source has done for...

Every now and then, someone suggests to me that, alongside the pursuit of Artificial Intelligence, we should also be pursuing "Artifici...

I just posted a way deeper and more interesting blog post a couple hours ago (using multiverse theory and Occam's Razor to explain why v...

I haven't voted in any election for a heck of a long time ... but, in some conversations a couple years ago, an argument came up that ac...

Way way back in the dark ages, when I was 19 years old and in my second year of grad school, I wrote a paper called "Holistic Indetermi...

This blog posts presents some really weird, speculative science, that I take with multiple proverbial salt-grains ... but, well, wouldn'...

Sooo.... The AGI-08 conference (agi-08.org) occurred last weekend in Memphis...! I had hoped to write up a real scientific summary of AGI-08...

A bit more on this nasty issue of will ... complementing rather than contradicting my previously-expressed ideas. (A lot of these theory-of-...