Liviu CoconuSfârsitul Emoției (I)“Ale dracului mașini”, rãbufni Nicu din șaormeria modestã în care se ascunseserã, “nu le-a ajuns, bă, sa fie inteligente ! S-a prins…3 min read·Jul 31, 2023----
Liviu CoconuOn the Nature of TruthEverything in the Universe is in perpetual change. Old greeks were right: “The Only Constant in Life Is Change” (Heraclitus) may sound like…6 min read·May 26, 2023----
Liviu CoconuEducation, Intelligence and the Turing TestTL;DR: can ChatGPT or a similar system pass the Turing test now or in a few years ? The answer is very likely yes. Does that mean we…8 min read·Dec 19, 2022--1--1
Liviu Coconu“Beam me up, Meta !” — uploading brains in the Metaverse.It has always been a recurrent theme in pop culture and SciFi movies - Black Mirror comes to mind. In a recent (and funny) instance, Greg…11 min read·Apr 12, 2022----
Liviu CoconuThe Metaverse isn’t Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” — 5 common myths.Few things are so hyped, heavily debated and misunderstood these days as “the Metaverse”, especially after Facebook, aka Meta, announced…4 min read·Feb 5, 2022----
Liviu CoconuHarry Potter and the Chamber of Scientific AgnosticismOk, this is not really about Harry Potter. But it is about magic.4 min read·Jan 4, 2021----
Liviu CoconuGoT and the democracy of selfish storiesYes, GoT = Game of Thrones. Have you ever wondered what exactly you vote for when you (hopefully) exercise your democratic right and duty ?4 min read·May 24, 2019----
Liviu Coconu“Emergence is strong with this one” — the free will loophole, part 2.Alright, I am grateful that several people have pointed out to the weakest link of the argumentation in my previous post addressing Sabine…6 min read·May 21, 2019----
Liviu CoconuThe Free Will LoopholeIn a recent blogpost called “How to live without free will” [5] Sabine Hossenfelder, a well-known theoretical physicist, is making a…7 min read·May 15, 2019--1--1
Liviu CoconuThe Selfish Story (2) —I s Your Soul a Story ?In the first part of this series of articles I have argued that stories — or, in their most condensed form, memes — control a large part…7 min read·May 8, 2019----