Paul G. Ellis

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How might AI technologies impact the philosophy of science?

Most living things make some sort of sense of their environment spontaneously, and humans have gone a level higher by creating philosophies of science and knowledge production. Now that AI...

11 November 2017 4,839 4 View

If learning a natural language delays dementia, might learning advanced mathematics (a 'formal language') have a comparable benefit?

Reports claiming cognitive activity helps delay the onset of dementia are fairly widespread. e.g. “elderly persons who did crossword puzzles four days a week (four activity-days) had a risk of...

05 May 2017 4,283 11 View

UPDATED: Where you CAN find a copy of Beall's List of predatory publishers / ?

UPDATED Nov 18th 2017 An updated list seems currently to be freely available at https://beallslist.weebly.com/ [Re-edited Feb. 3rd 2017] This message originally concerned the recovery of access...

01 January 2017 6,140 16 View

How might the cognitive benefits of learning mathematics (a formal language) compare to those suggested for learning a second natural language?

The articles linked below list a number of recent peer-reviewed references making the case for lifelong cognitive benefits from learning a second natural language, ranging from early developmental...

08 August 2016 6,657 2 View

Where can I find further discussion of the algebra(s) of “basic reflections” (e.g. γ^2 = -1 ), mentioned in Sec. 11.5 of Penrose’s "Road to Reality"?

In Roger Penrose’s Chapter 11 of Road to Reality, titled ‘Hypercomplex Numbers’, he discusses Clifford Algebra elements being constructed out of “basic reflections” or “first order (‘primary’)...

02 February 2016 393 5 View