Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Douglas Hofstadter shows talent in a vast amount of areas as the polymath geniuses from the past like Leonardo Da Vinci.
Intelligent human beings ,are getting more so, & SURVIVAL has &always will be the critical watchword..they will sense danger -(he's overlooked -"only Ignorant animals go round killing each other." why does he say we-(including himself?) Mother Nature ,the creator ALWAYS has a plan. Mechanical machinery cannot mend itself nor reproduce itself.I am a Designer,I have found this. A Blueprint without a pair of EYES to Read it-A mind to comprehend &understand it.,& a pair of hands to make it, is DEAD
@Atmosfferic I'm with you here. What is an "altruistic" being? If he's talking only about other mammals, then who can define "altruism"? "Altruism" is a human concept. If humans would dissappear, the "altruistic character" of those other beings would be meaningless. Love it or hate it, in that respect the man IS the measure of all things. So how can he say we humans are not the most important? Provocative statement but it doesn't impress me. Being so smart he could do better.
That's a good idea if you think the earth is the only planet in the universe with intelligent life on it, and that no other intelligent life might ever come here and try to harm us, but realistically speaking nature is a testing environment a proving ground for the much bigger universe, if we were not violent to some extent we would not survive an external threat in some distant future.
@falsedichotomies He discovered chaos in quantum orbitals in his PhD thesis - the first such discovery of chaotic effects anywhere in Quantum Mechanics, taught himself Russian to translate Pushkin into English -> that translation is now considered canonical, is considered an authority on Analogical reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. If that is not a polymath, then the word is meaningless.
I'm so sorry.I came back and I saw the music in my head. It's BACH d minor French suite theEnglish suitesor French suites that is da question now! .I'd have to get my score.What made me think it was a prelude.Mind ,memory. Yet after freeing mind for a second it came to me .I saw the notes split between the hands on the actual page .
Reminds me of the re-launched Battlestar Gallactica.
But also, if we wanted the morally superior artificial offspring to survive. and furthermore, were able to create such a thing, would that not show our own capabilities and our own worthiness to survive... it's almost a strange loop.
I'm not so sure that it would show our worthiness. If we created something that could end a war, such as the atom bomb, which could cause great destruction and death, but the ultimate use of said bomb would save presumably more lives, that would be morally good, but the invention of such a thing would not show our own worthiness (I don't think) because it is in our nature that we are unworthy, considering we had to create a bomb of mass destruction in order to quell mass destruction.
Nice Video That You Share , So Very Nice Thanks You Douglas Hofstadter A living polymath
croncong 1 week ago
Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing Douglas Hofstadter shows talent in a vast amount of areas as the polymath geniuses from the past like Leonardo Da Vinci.
lupabuatchannel 1 week ago
Vote Douglas Hofstadter for U.S. President.
gjjackson1968 1 month ago
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khijasmith 1 month ago
Very enjoyable thank you
thegeffc 1 month ago
Very enjoyable thank you
clairebehun 1 month ago
I think those altruistic creatures may kill us all to save themselves --- and if they did so, would this be immoral?
nobodady1 3 months ago
Young Hofstadter looked like young Turing, and now old Hofstadter looks like old Carl Sagan.
powerdriller10 6 months ago
Intelligent human beings ,are getting more so, & SURVIVAL has &always will be the critical watchword..they will sense danger -(he's overlooked -"only Ignorant animals go round killing each other." why does he say we-(including himself?) Mother Nature ,the creator ALWAYS has a plan. Mechanical machinery cannot mend itself nor reproduce itself.I am a Designer,I have found this. A Blueprint without a pair of EYES to Read it-A mind to comprehend &understand it.,& a pair of hands to make it, is DEAD
Atmosfferic 7 months ago
@Atmosfferic
I recommend reading Godel Escher Bach, it might help you become a better designer.
"Mechanical machinery cannot mend itself nor reproduce itself"
To some extent this has already been done ... but please keep saying; "You cannot go to the moon!" to keep us challanged.
DyzLecticus 6 months ago
@Atmosfferic I'm with you here. What is an "altruistic" being? If he's talking only about other mammals, then who can define "altruism"? "Altruism" is a human concept. If humans would dissappear, the "altruistic character" of those other beings would be meaningless. Love it or hate it, in that respect the man IS the measure of all things. So how can he say we humans are not the most important? Provocative statement but it doesn't impress me. Being so smart he could do better.
Cassyan 2 months ago
@Atmosfferic And btw, great line there "a blueprint without a pair of eyes to read it is dead" -- couldn't agree more.
Cassyan 2 months ago
That's a good idea if you think the earth is the only planet in the universe with intelligent life on it, and that no other intelligent life might ever come here and try to harm us, but realistically speaking nature is a testing environment a proving ground for the much bigger universe, if we were not violent to some extent we would not survive an external threat in some distant future.
OrganicDrew 8 months ago
he is saying in other worlds that one day artificial intelligences will replace us. This is really impressive but could be true
mastaizitto 9 months ago
So this guy can play the piano and philosophize poorly... how does that make him a polymath?
falsedichotomies 1 year ago
@falsedichotomies He discovered chaos in quantum orbitals in his PhD thesis - the first such discovery of chaotic effects anywhere in Quantum Mechanics, taught himself Russian to translate Pushkin into English -> that translation is now considered canonical, is considered an authority on Analogical reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. If that is not a polymath, then the word is meaningless.
ZombieJesusBrainz 8 months ago 6
poor and simplistic assumptions about human behavior at the end
sgtmcwallace 1 year ago
Anyone know where this interview is from? would love to see the whole thing.
theowilltheo 1 year ago
@theowilltheo Google "Victim of the Brain"
It's real groovy- on par with Sagan's Cosmos
adamwong246 7 months ago
I'm so sorry.I came back and I saw the music in my head. It's BACH d minor French suite theEnglish suitesor French suites that is da question now! .I'd have to get my score.What made me think it was a prelude.Mind ,memory. Yet after freeing mind for a second it came to me .I saw the notes split between the hands on the actual page .
lovesGenet 1 year ago
Really famous Bach prelude .Now which key is this one so out of 48 preludes& Fughes you can find it. Get book one!
lovesGenet 1 year ago
What song is he playing at 0:43?
steveeq1 2 years ago
Reminds me of the re-launched Battlestar Gallactica.
But also, if we wanted the morally superior artificial offspring to survive. and furthermore, were able to create such a thing, would that not show our own capabilities and our own worthiness to survive... it's almost a strange loop.
samusamu 2 years ago
I'm not so sure that it would show our worthiness. If we created something that could end a war, such as the atom bomb, which could cause great destruction and death, but the ultimate use of said bomb would save presumably more lives, that would be morally good, but the invention of such a thing would not show our own worthiness (I don't think) because it is in our nature that we are unworthy, considering we had to create a bomb of mass destruction in order to quell mass destruction.
seanstarrve 2 years ago
The desire to create something morally superior isn't really morally relevant unless you're a Kantian.
seanstarrve 2 years ago
@samusamu what you said is actually very clever
amatorynumber 1 year ago
@amatorynumber thanks :D
samusamu 1 year ago
Yes! I agree.
See? He's smart. Learn something from him.
PetuniaWinehousen 2 years ago 3
*gasp*
Altruistic beings ruling the world?
AAAAGGGGHHHH!
RoulfYelrab 2 years ago 2