Questions

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?

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?

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?