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08 Feb The Power of Inference

Joe Roushar – February 2024 Sense Perception and Cognition What can you infer about the things in this picture: Our senses are constantly feeding information to our brains, but how much can we trust? Inference is guesswork performed by the frontal cortex based on circuitous electrical signal pathways from the sensory parts of the brain, […]

25 Jan Pure Democracy: a New World Disorder

Indigenous Healer

Joe Roushar – January 2023 What are You Talking About? Is pure democracy possible in human society? Introducing everyone to a truly democratic society would put them on the same footing – provide a kind of equality and shared opportunity that philosophers have envisioned for millennia. Yet experience has shown us that some delegated decision […]

10 Jun Knowledge is the New Foundation for Success

Interconnected Process and Content

Joe Roushar – June 2020 Retooling for The Beginning of a New Age This year, 2020 will be the turning point in AI adoption because successful implementations will be available to small and large organizations without breaking the bank. Success will be measured in specific business value achieved. Affordability will dramatically improve because of AI […]

29 Jan Will Computers Ever Understand Me?

By: Joe Roushar – January 2020 I think I understand Ideas of devices becoming sentient need not be frightening. Thinking and being seem to be tightly bound: Je pense, donc je suis (Descartes 1628). Some have riffed on René’s theme to suggest the idea that sentience is defined by symbolic thought and expression (language), but […]