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Fumfer Physics 36: Proto-Thoughts, Context, and Memory Hooks
Scott Douglas Jacobsen asks whether it is naïve to look for a discrete “unit” of thought, given that thoughts vary in informational content and rarely arrive as neat sentences. Rick Rosner argues that language captures only a thin slice of cognition: perception, background knowledge, self-critique, and half-formed associations run in parallel as “proto-thoughts.” He uses the example of viewing a painting to show how sensory input and contextual inference accompany any sentence-like notion. Most thoughts, he adds, pass without leaving retrieval “hooks,” much like dreams. Without deliberate encoding—or a later contextual trigger—mental material vanishes, because recall depends on activating the right associative patterns.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen3 days ago in Interview
A Chat with Andrew Chancellor, CEO at Wellbeing International Foundation
Tell us about Wellbeing International The Wellbeing International Foundation was created to close the gap between scientific discovery and everyday medicine. The aim has always been to turn strong biologic research into treatments that genuinely help people, rather than leaving good science stuck inside laboratories. Our focus is on regenerative medicine and cell-free biologic therapies. These are treatments built from the body’s own healing signals rather than whole cells or surgery.
By Wellbeing International Foundation9 days ago in Interview
T. Michael W. Halcomb on Disillusionment, Community, and Accountability in the Modern Church
T. Michael W. Halcomb is an American professor, author, podcaster, and stand-up comedian. He is the author of around 30 books, an educator with five degrees (including a PhD), and a frequent academic presenter with nearly 100 conference presentations. He co-founded GlossaHouse in 2012, a publishing house focused on language-learning resources, especially biblical languages. He gave a TEDx talk, "Silent no more: Resurrecting dead languages," in Evansville, IN in October of 2015. His comedy work has been featured in outlets such as Yahoo! Entertainment, TheWrap, and The Mirror US.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen10 days ago in Interview
Comprehensive List of the Leading Market Research Companies in Saudi Arabia. AI-Generated.
Why Market Research is More Critical Than Ever in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia is experiencing one of the most dramatic economic transformations in the modern Middle East. Under the ambitious Vision 2030 initiative, the Kingdom is rapidly diversifying away from oil dependency and cultivating dynamic new sectors including tourism, entertainment, technology, retail, healthcare, fintech, and real estate. This historic pivot—combined with sweeping regulatory reforms, massive infrastructure investments, and a young, tech-savvy population—has created unprecedented opportunities for businesses both local and international.
By Ibtisam Al-Qahtani26 days ago in Interview
Claus D. Volko, M.D. on Symbiont Conversion Theory and Bacterial Reprogramming
Claus D. Volko, M.D. (born 1983) is an Austrian software engineer and medical scientist in Vienna. He holds degrees in medicine (M.D.), medical informatics (B.Sc.) and computational intelligence (M.Sc.). In the demoscene he is known as “Adok” and served as main editor of the electronic magazine Hugi. Volko formulated Symbiont Conversion Theory in 2018. He founded and leads the Prudentia High IQ Society, and joined Mensa in 2002. In 2018 he published “Volko Personality Patterns,” a Jungian-inspired extension of MBTI typology. In 2025 he posted “Reprogramming Bacteria for Symbiont Conversion: A Review” on Prudentia’s blog, and maintains Prudentia’s journal and blog.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen28 days ago in Interview
Expert Networks vs Traditional Consulting — Key Differences Explained. AI-Generated.
Businesses today operate in fast-moving, data-heavy environments where decisions need to be made quickly and confidently. Two of the most commonly used sources of external intelligence are expert networks and traditional consulting firms. While both help organizations solve problems, they work in fundamentally different ways.
By Nexus Expert Researchabout a month ago in Interview
Top Saudi Arabia Market Research Companies You Can Trust in 2025. AI-Generated.
Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing one of the most dynamic economic transformations in modern history. Under Vision 2030, the Kingdom is shifting rapidly from an oil-dependent economy to a diverse hub of tourism, entertainment, technology, and manufacturing. For businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs, this presents unprecedented opportunities—but only if they have the right map.
By Andrew Sullivanabout a month ago in Interview
The Questions That Opened a Future
The studio lights blinked on like curious eyes, focusing all their attention on the empty chair at the center of the room. This wasn’t a place of actors or grand debates—it was the interview set of Voices in Motion, a small community on Vocal Media where conversations opened doors to truth. Today’s guest was someone unexpected: a young man named Mr. Rehan Farooq, a fresh university graduate who seemed to have more questions than answers.
By Spotlight stories 2 months ago in Interview
The Questions That Built a Dream
As the old clock on the office wall ticked steadily, Ayan Malik stood outside the interview room, clutching his folder so tightly that his hands were turning pale. The office was quiet, and Ayan could even hear the faint hum of the ceiling fan. He had spent months searching for work, practicing answers late at night, and dreaming that someone somewhere would finally say, “You’re hired.”
By Spotlight stories 2 months ago in Interview
The Quiet Support We Often Need: How Real-Time Guidance Can Transform the Way We Work. AI-Generated.
There’s a moment most professionals experience but rarely speak about — the moment you look at your screen, your task, your deadline, and whisper silently to yourself, “I don’t know what to do next.”
By Pamela Kholi2 months ago in Interview
Fumfer Physics 34: P vs NP, Gödel, Chaitin, and Computational Limits
In this exchange, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner explore the P vs NP problem and its philosophical echoes. Rosner leans toward the mainstream view that P likely does not equal NP, drawing a parallel to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Jacobsen expands the discussion with Tarski’s meta-language framework and Chaitin’s arguments about irreducible complexity, connecting them to both biological systems and modern AI. The conversation emphasizes that mathematical uncertainty does not endanger reality; instead, it reveals intrinsic limits on what computation can achieve. The pair illustrate this with the traveling salesman problem, an archetype of explosive combinatorial complexity in the real world.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen2 months ago in Interview
