Philosophy Wire: Fault tolerant…

Physicists take a step toward building a fault-tolerant quantum computer. They have realized a novel type of QEC where the quantum errors are spontaneously corrected. [1] Fault tolerant. The cosmos already is. We once were as well. But now we know too much. Now we cannot accept faults, out of fear that what we have already built might crumble to ruins. Now we want to correct errors. Based on nothing more but the most basic of our faulty assumptions: There are errors… There is right and wrong... (Could we be wrong?)

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Philosophy Wire: Alzheimer’s disease. With no memory loss… Science. Without freedom of thought…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-08-04]: A small number of people maintain razor-sharp memories into their 90s, despite having brains chock-full of the plaques and tangles linked to Alzheimer’s disease. [1] For proper scientists only ONE counterexample is sufficient to dissolve the current theory. But modern dogmatic science and medicine are not satisfied with just one. The counter-example will be refined and analyzed until it finally fits into the small boxes that we have in our minds based on what we think we know. The main objective: to maintain the existing theory, whereas the opposite should be the main objective of all true researchers. Only via the continuous dissolution of existing theories can science progress. Once we knew how to think. Now we just... try to discover what is right. Now we just... do science.

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Philosophy Wire: Living in the zoo…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-09-05]: The authorities in India are encouraging a specific cast of people to have more children. [1] Like animals. We procreate. And when the zoo keeper wants more exhibits, we are “encouraged”. At this point in time, humanity must die in order to start living again. Without “proper” and “not proper”. Without “right” and “wrong”. Just live.

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Philosophy Wire: Dyslexia. Maths. The "unorthodox" way...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-11-05]: The brains of children with dyslexia rely on unusual strategies to solve certain kinds of math problems, researchers report in the Nov. 1 NeuroImage. The findings could explain why dyslexia, a disorder of reading, can bring math troubles too. [1] But who defines the "correct" way? Only if you are willing to do the "wrong" thing will you be able to progress. And we are too... "healthy" to do that.

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Philosophy Wire: Worry. Why?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-21]: Scientists record the basic things for which we should be worried as humanity. [1] But worry entails the knowledge of how things "should be". And it is really important that for some unknown reason we are sure that "right" exists somewhere out there... Lurking... Defining our lives... An invisible aura surrounding and binding us... Right? Wrong? Someone somewhere knows... (?)

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