Eric Holloway
Eric Holloway: Can computer neural networks learn better than human neurons?
Eric Holloway: Artificial neural networks can show that the mind isn’t the brain
Eric Holloway: The Salem hypothesis as to why engineers doubt Darwin
At Mind Matters News: Eric Holloway’s Weasel Libs — a variant of Mad Libs, in honor of Richard Dawkins
At Mind Matters News: Does information have mass? An experimental physicist weighs in
Eric Holloway: Does information weigh something after all? What if it does?
Eric Holloway on Dawkins’s dubious weasel
At Mind Matters News: Eric Holloway asks, Is AlphaZero Actually Superior to the Human Mind?
At Mind Matters News: Chalmers and Penrose clash over “conscious computers”
At Mind Matters News: Are the brain cells in a dish that learned Pong conscious?
Eric Holloway at Mind Matters News: Can the “physical world” be wholly physical? Physical at all?
Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and Lovelace – We Need a Terminator Test
Eric Holloway: Why is randomness a good model, but not a good explanation?
After all, he argues, random processes are used all the time to model things in science: When we test a sequence of numbers for randomness, we are essentially testing how easy it is to predict the sequence of numbers. One of the simplest tests is to measure how frequently heads and tails occur during a series of coin flips. If the distribution is heavily skewed one way or the other after a large number of flips, then we can be pretty certain the coin is not fair. We cannot be absolutely certain, since there is always a small probability for a really long run of heads, but as the run lengthens, the probability of achieving the run with a fair Read More ›