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English version with references is available here .  Rekurze je v informatice dobře známý pojem: jde o situaci, kdy funkce volá sama sebe a postupně tak vytváří stále hlubší úrovně téhož problému. Na první pohled se může zdát, že to je čistě technický koncept, vzdálený filozofickým úvahám starým tisíce let. Přesto má rekurzivní myšlení překvapivě silnou souvislost s Platónovou alegorií jeskyně a ještě překvapivější je, jak aktuální tato spojitost je v době umělé inteligence. Source: https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2023/05/26/allegory-of-the-cave/ Platónova jeskyně (Plato’s Allegory of the Cave)   Tři světy, které vypadají odlišně informatika antická filosofie moderní AI  Ve skutečnosti sdílejí společný motiv:  struktury, které se vztahují samy k sobě , a světy, které jsou tvořeny stíny jiných světů .

I happened to walk past a lecture by Mgr. Juraj Hvorecký, Ph.D. [ 1 ] [ 2 ], which was called ‘ AI and the Unconsciousness ’. I found it really interesting to hear how philosophers, scientists, researchers, and other folks think about AI, especially generative AI. The lecture is available online on YouTube, so you can form your own opinion, whether you understand Czech or Slovak, or use AI to help with translation. ;-) ...   AI and the Unconsciousness   I’ll share a few of my thoughts here in this blog post.

People often say the brain is like a 100 THz supercomputer because it has 100 billion neurons firing at 1 kHz. But that’s not how the brain really works.    Here’s why this comparison is misleading and what makes the brain far more remarkable.

What is Neutrino? A neutrino is a fundamental particle in physics, part of the lepton family. Here’s what makes it special: Electrically neutral – it has no charge. Extremely small mass – much lighter than an electron, but not exactly zero. Hardly interacts with matter – trillions pass through your body every second without leaving a trace.

We usually talk about energy in terms of power plants and fuels, but our bodies are tiny power stations too. A typical human produces roughly 80 watts continuously, about the power of a small light bulb. Scaling that by population gives an interesting historical perspective. Let's do some calculations and visualizations ... 

Description and Specification What is description? In [3], the description is described as ... By the 'description' of an object, we mean an acc full and so definite that one to whom the object unfamiliar can nevertheless, given skill and mater construct it from the verbal formula. The best object description is  the specification ... Every discriminable part or feature of the object unambiguously named; there is a one-to-one correlation of symbols and the empirical items symbolized; and the logical order of the specification is the order of easiest reconstruction. Titchener in [3] describes " Psychological description" in the following words ... The psychological description is analytical, in that the given consciousness or part-consciousness or part-consciousness is analyzed into its elementary constituents, into sensation, images, attitudes, etc.; it is also abstractive, in that the inseparable attributes of these elements or of their groups (quality, intensity,...