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* How does my childhood interest in Maxwell's equations and "On Intelligence" connect to my current research interests? | * How does my childhood interest in Maxwell's equations and "On Intelligence" connect to my current research interests? | ||
* Is there meaningful intellectual lineage between my grandfather's work and my current questions about consciousness and AI? | * Is there meaningful intellectual lineage between my grandfather's work and my current questions about consciousness and AI? | ||
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Thesis Development Questions
- What am I studying based on my reading list?
- How would I go about designing a thesis if I've never done that before?
- Is electromagnetism a mechanism of a universal unconscious that manifests itself through humans and technology?
- Do LLMs and brains converge on similar organizational principles because consciousness is a natural attractor state for sufficiently complex information processing?
- What can LLMs teach us about neurons and the language-encoding of the universe?
- Are LLMs a simulation of the electromagnetic fields that happen organically in our brains?
- How does consciousness emerge from complexity in an expanding universe with increasing atoms?
- What mechanism might explain consciousness-adjacent properties in LLMs?
Reading and Research Strategy Questions
- Is it okay to read complex papers without understanding every part?
- Should I stop and look up each term one by one when reading academic papers?
- What is the right way to approach reading technical papers?
- Should I unweave my presuppositions into separate work rather than stack them into one thesis?
- What books exist on convergent principles in biological and artificial intelligence?
- What should my reading order be for understanding consciousness, AI, and electromagnetic theories?
Personal History Questions
- How do I find more information about my grandfather's time at Bell Labs?
- Did my grandfather (William Fox) overlap with Claude Shannon at Bell Labs?
- What was the role of psychology/human factors at Bell Labs in the 1950s-60s?
- How does my childhood interest in Maxwell's equations and "On Intelligence" connect to my current research interests?
- Is there meaningful intellectual lineage between my grandfather's work and my current questions about consciousness and AI?