rainight
2 months ago
A lot of people view consciousness as an emergent property of the brain, but what does that really mean? What is emergence really? There are two types of emergence we have to consider: weak emergence and strong emergence. Weak emergence is your everyday emergence like how a song is composed of simpler tones or how computer parts operate from simpler hardware parts. Strong emergence on the other hand is just magic.
discreteideas
2 months ago
Fantastic read, really interesting. If you don't mind I will follow up because this stuff is so fun to think about. :)
myrtletribe
2 months ago
suuper interesting, i think you will like the book I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
vihmu
2 months ago
Thank you! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) I like your website's design a lot as well. About metka (the markup language), it is very barebones (though I may extend it in the future) - roughly around 300 lines of C - the general idea being that it gives you some simple "commands" that get transformed into HTML structures. I have tried Pandoc in the past, but found it really slow on my older PCs lol
vihmu
2 months ago
And this is the shell script that generates the entire site: https://codeberg.org/vihmu/site/src/branch/main/build.sh
discreteideas
2 months ago
Thanks! I mainly run GPU accelerated simulations. Some people run massively parallel simulations on CPU research clusters (e.g. Archer 2). However accessing GPU clusters is expensive and difficult (you need a large budget) and funders tend to prioritise AI related work. With my limited budget then I run my simulations on two desktop GPU workstations which works well enough for up-to several hundred thousand particles
rainight
2 months ago
Very cool! I once worked on a simulation project and I can relate to the pain of having to wait for computations to finish xD
I LOVE MAIDCORE !!!! u forgot ur enneagram tho. i also added ur disc
@peel I'm very happy to see another maidcore fan! I never took the enneagram test so I will have try that.
DO NOT TAKE A TEST I will type you.