Join My Brain Food

A batch of the best highlights from what Louis's read, .

in order to be able to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought)

[Routledge Classics] Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

2001, Routledge - libgen.lc

A company that could pay all its employees so straightforwardly would be enormously successful. Many employees would work harder if they could get paid for it. More importantly, such a company would attract people who wanted to work especially hard. It would crush its competitors.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

The unit of processing in the neocortex is the cortical column. Each column is a complete sensory-motor system—that is, it gets inputs and it can generate behaviors. With every movement, a column predicts what its next input will be. Prediction is how a column tests and updates its model.

A Thousand Brains_ A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

...catch up on these, and many more highlights

Readwise by &
Readwise helps thousands of readers get the most out what they read on Kindle, Instapaper, iBooks, and more.
© Readwise · Terms · Privacy ·
LEARN
Blog
How To
Pricing
EXPLORE
Dashboard
Search
Sync Highlights
CONTACT
Facebook
Twitter
Email us