A.I., Corporate Algorithms, and Anti Human Programming | William Softky

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Theoretical neuroscientist William Softky returns to the Far Out with Faust podcast to delve deeply into the science of our senses to help us understand — technically speaking — exactly what’s going on (and what’s going wrong) within our nervous system.
Learn why math is better than science (he’s got proof), and how artificial intelligence (AI), corporate algorithms, and our own blind trust in “the spreadsheets” have created a self-fulfilling dependence on the unreal that’s damaging our core in ways we may never comprehend.
According to Bill, the anti human programming solution is simple: it all comes down to connection — the actual kind. Listen in to learn his anti-tech tricks that just might save us from ourselves.
William Softky is a biophysicist who was among the first neuroscientists to understand microtiming, and among the first technologists to build that understanding into algorithms. His name is on 10 patents, thousands have cited his scientific work, and two of the companies he inspired were acquired for $160 million total.
Softky holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, where he discovered a still-unsolved paradox about the firing patterns of brain neurons. A theoretical biophysicist — the son of two physicists — Softky served in the Peace Corps in Cameroon before attending grad school.
His subsequent career in Silicon Valley (including biophysics, human-computer interaction, and signal processing) has given him a unique perspective on the software and hardware architecture of human brains, including new insights about our deepest (yet most deeply-hidden) high-bandwidth method of somatic communication.
softky.com
--A scientific philosophy of life: https://www.softky.com/index2.php
Pure science:
--A Grant Unified Theory of the Informational Structure of Life, starting with homeostatic fragility and ending with spinal ecstasy and human resonant connection....all derived from scratch, no footnotes:
https://www.softky.com/index2.php
--Bulletproof 60-page peer-reviewed paper outlining human nervous system needs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.08916.pdf
--Eight mathematical proofs that brains are natively analog 3-D processors: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.8275.pdf
Fair Observer.com: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/william-softky/