From: Neil Gershenfeld Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 2:28:18 PM Subject: Re: To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacationegmailcom> If you get a chance to read it, I wrote that paper as a manifesto for the project. The idea is to make software look like hardware, rather than hide the difference and pretend they're unrelated. Think of this as the substrate for brain-building. Neil On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Jeffrey Epstein leevacation mail,com> wrote: I would like to hear more when you have time. computing as compared to calculating?. . relationships as compared to equivalence?. Hillis in the early days wanted a machine that was proud of him. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Neil Gershenfeld <[email protected]> wrote: Did I send you this paper: http.//cba.mit.eduidoe_sjpapers/11.12.Computing.pdf and talk: http://www-03.ibm,com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/ideasioct201 I watson.html ? My real interest in thinking about thinking is the mechanisms -- I'm increasingly convinced that there needs to be a do-over of all of computing. Neil On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: either is fine. what would you need to fulfill the popper definition of falsifiable. . masquerade is a deceptive strategy. easily proven to be a false signal. . again the observer, of the interaction. has the more difficult problem as he sees both. of determinng, which image is real. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Neil Gershenfeld wrote: sure, although I was going to include him in an intro to the whole group we sketched, could follow from that On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: EFTA_R1_00053279 EFTA01753664