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A talk on why beauty is such a good selection criteria for discovering correct physical law. A quote: Life can emerge from physics and chemistry plus a lot of accidents. I will say that mathematical beauty is in part self fulfilling, since theories which are beautiful (simple) are more likely to be discovered before grossly [...]

I’ve been reading a lot of Searle recently. Searle bashing seems to be a popular pastime among young graduate students in AI, but I admit to a certain sympathy with his argument. I recently read about analogue computing in The New Turing Omnibus which reminded me of one of Searle’s central claims, that the locus [...]