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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 5:01 PM To: Ben Goertzel Subject: Re: yes IU would like to be put in touch, yes i will re =ead . gino is still an unlknown On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:58 P=, Ben Goertzel wrote: Hi Jeffrey, Good to hear from you! BTW -- We have not yet been able to install our software on your Virgin Islands server as requested, because the sys-admin there, Jermaine, has not yet opened a port in the router there to let us access the machine remotely. I wonder if he doesn't know ho= to do that? (but it's a very basic thing...).... Anyhow we have emailed=and asked him to do this several times... I like the idea of a machine that can ask questions...! Actuall= the logic of questions is dual to the logic of answers, see http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/aistats/fullpapers=246.pdf chttp://www.gatsby.ucLac.uk/aistats/fullpapers/246.pdf> Making OpenCog ask questions to fill in gaps in its knowledge is one of our current priorities, in fad.... I'm glad to hear you have decided to fund Joscha for another year. =AO He is really enjoying his time in Boston and getting a lot out of the various contacts he's making there. I wonder if you'd l=ke to reconsider funding the proposal Joscha and I sent you some months ago, for work on intelligent/simply-conscious virtual animals? Or di= that happen not to float your boat? We have discussed many other possibilities for collaboration, e.g. application of OpenCog +MicroPsi to mathematical theorem-proving (via grounding mathematics in embodied experience, along the lines that Lakoff and Nunez discussed in "Where<=r> Mathematics Comes From") Gino Yu told me he met you recently. He's a fun guy who hel=ed me get started here in Hong Kong. His wife's family is very wealthy =nd influential here (though his wife, while head of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, got busted for insider trading and spent 1.5 years in jail here... really a bummer for Gino's kids... but anyway she's be=n out a while now and is back in business...) EFTA_R1_01625244 EFTA02499107  As for Rupert Sheldrake, yes I know him.... He's not a super-clos= friend but I visited his house in London in 2012, and have emailed with him a few times since then. Also he had a paper in a book on psi=br> that I co-edited last year, see http://www.amazon.com/Ev=dence-Psi-Thirteen-Empirical-Research/dp/0786478284 chttp://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Psi-Thirteen-Empirical-Research/d=/0786478284> or see http://goertzelorg/Evidence_for_Psi_PREPRINT.pdf</=> for a free digital copy ... the password is dataWillPrevail Rupert has found various private funders for his experiments in the past, but I'm sure he would be happy to have more funding for more experiments. If you're in an especially open-minded mood, you might enjoy my speculative thoughts on a potential physics foundation for Rupert's morphic field idea, see <http://goertzel.org/Evidence_for_Psi_PREPRINT.pdf> http://mul=iverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2014/09/morphic-fields-memory-psi-unified=html chttp://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2014/09/morphic-fiel=s-memory-psi-unified.html> Shall I put you in touch with Rupert by email? I would be interested to try to figure out an experiment that would probe the quantitative nature and "laws" of putative morphic fiel=s more precisely. I think his idea is deep and fascinating, yet too slippery for my taste.... His email and telephone telepathy experiments are fascinating and I think could be developed to give further information. For instance, he finds that this sort of telepathy typically takes places between members of groups who sharear> social or emotional bonds. So, I wonder if this could be quanti=ied. If we measure social and emotional bonds using psychosocial survey instruments, can we then use this information to probabilistically predict the degree of email or telephone telepathy? This could =ell us something about the information-theoretic nature of the patterns that "morphic fields" (whatever they really are) pay attention to=... Of course, he may have even better ideas for new experiments.... Yours, Ben 2 EFTA_R1_01625245 EFTA02499108  On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:47 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» wrote: > hi, I have begun funding some Al to the minus one. . answers are=not as > interesting as great questions. i want a machine that can ask qu=sitons.? > In my scouting I saw you supported rupert sheldrakes right to speak.=C2 have > you met him. Id like to fund something . if controls adequ=te > -- > please note > The information contained in this communication is > confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may > constitute inside information, and is intended only for > the use of the addressee. It is the property of > JEE > Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this > communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited > and may be unlawful. If you have received this > communication in error, please notify us immediately by > return e-mail or by e-mail to <mailto:[email protected]> , and > destroy this communication and all copies thereof, > including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved Ben Goertzel, PhD http:/=goertzel.org <http://goertzel.org> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one<=r> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw =C2 please note The information contained in this communication =s confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute in=ide information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It =s the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of thi= communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be=unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please noti=y us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , and des=roy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachment=. copyright -all rights reserved 3 EFTA_R1_01625246 EFTA02499109