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Applying some of Karl Popper's and David Deutsch's ideas to analyze and evaluate Elon Musk's recent Neuralink presentation and the Q&A afterward. Throwing some of my own ideas into the mix as well. Errors mine.\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dchackethal\n\nReferences\n- The original presentation and Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvmgjBL74w\n- The neo-Darwinian theory of the mind (written article): https://medium.com/conjecture-magazine/the-neo-darwinian-theory-of-the-mind-d84c0bcc6485\n- The neo-Darwinian theory of the mind (read out loud): https://soundcloud.com/dchacke/16-the-neo-darwinian-theory-of-the-mind\n- David Deutsch\u2019s interview on CBC radio: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/the-new-human-1.4696724/oxford-physicist-predicts-ai-will-be-human-in-all-but-name-1.4696754\n- David Deutsch\u2019s second interview with Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/podcasts/finding-our-way-in-the-cosmos/\n- Article about fluid buildup replacing much of man\u2019s brain: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/\n- David Deutsch, \u201cThe Beginning of Infinity,\u201d chapters 5 (levels of emergence and abstractions), 12 (bad philosophy), 13 (Balinksi\u2019s and Young\u2019s no-go theorem regarding \u201cderiving\u201d the will of the group from the will of each individual)\n- Karl Popper, \u201cObjective Knowledge,\u201d appendix \u201cThe Bucket and the Searchlight\u201d\n- Karl Popper, \u201cAlle Menschen sind Philosophen,\u201d Kapitel \u201cZweites Pr\xe4ludium: Die Zukunft ist offen\u201d (the conversation with Konrad Lorenz)\n- Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience ("Our Goal" section): https://redwood.berkeley.edu/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepathy\n\nAdditional source\n- Twitter thread by Dennis containing tweets made live during the event: https://twitter.com/dchackethal/status/1299500744287031296\n\nCorrection: at 15:00, I say that memories are\nalways based on self-replicating ideas *that have high longevity*.\nThat's not true. A memory could be a self-replicating idea with low\nlongevity but high fecundity and high copying fidelity.\n\nCorrection: I attributed the fact that there can be no consistent "will of the people" to Balinski & Young. That was a mistake. That's Arrow's theorem, discovered by Kenneth Arrow. Balinski & Young's theorem states that there can be no apportionment rules that meets quota without also causing a population paradox (cf. Deutsch, "The Beginning of Infinity," ch. 13).