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How one might develop a Heideggerian AI that uses software equipment

This year I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying to read Martin Heidegger‘s great work Being and Time, using Hubert Dreyfus’ Berkeley lectures on the book as supporting material. By now I’ve almost finished division 1. I’m learning a lot, but it’s fair to say that this is one of the most difficult books […]

Posted 05 August 2012 † johan § Computer science § Philosophy § Software development ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Entering into bioinformatics

As of now, I have been working with bioinformatics in the Mizuguchi lab at NIBIO, Osaka, for about two weeks. The lab environment is stimulating and I feel quite fortunate to be here. It is interesting to compare computer science and bioinformatics with just the hindsight of this short period. In computer science and electronics, […]

Posted 14 April 2012 † johan § Bioinformatics § Life ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Science and philosophy. Another angle.

This is an attempt at restating part of this old blog post in a simpler way. Scientists are valuable to society. They help extract new knowledge and theories about the world. To the extent that they are right, they improve our affluence, our physical health, and, possibly, our outlook on life. But scientists can also provide […]

Posted 22 August 2011 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Values 1: Philosophy, science, and their relationship

This is hopefully the start of a short series of posts in which I attempt to relate the concepts of value and value creation, in particular as they were understood by Friedrich Nietzsche, to the modern world, in some kind of way. Comments of all kinds are encouraged! In the beginning (understood as ancient Greece), […]

Posted 18 January 2011 † johan § Computer science § Philosophy ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,