Episode 8.64: The trans-human and it’s implications for human knowledge.

We like to think that the way human beings think is the way the world works. The ultimate human theory is something that can be printed in a formula on a T-shirt. But trans-human artificial intelligence suggests something different: that the universe may not be intelligible at all in terms of such simple theories; that big data may exhibit patterns that rely on more dimensions of simultaneous perception than any human is capable of perceiving.