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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 1:32 PM To: Rupert Sheldrake Subject: Re: Introduction of two creative minds Rupert , thanks! . do you=come to the states again soon? paris? , I have begun to =und what I call AI (-1) . After funding in general areas that =re searching for answers I have asked people to devise an artificial=method for asking questions. -my view is that intelligence has too o=ten been modeled after computation. previously I have funded=large studies in both conventional and unconventional areas.. strin= theory ( I am well versed in the esoteric mathematics). quantum gra=ity, . , chi in china, placebo effects. , my institute at harv=rd is termed evolutionary dynamics, (with martin novak). I wa= an early funder of chaos theory with feigenbaum and complexity theory wit= Murray Gell-man. Category theory might give some appparatus for you=to better describe your structures. . algebraic toplogy , hype=bolic geometry, all have benefited from its notation. mathate=atics since the 1990s has added more to the various fields and is ab=e to describe many more things that were bounded by the math of the twenti=th and nineteenth. query . If you were pr=vided serious funding, to "validate " your views. what to= three "experiments" would you choose. ? Im not sure=this is the best description of what you think is needed I=have spent a great deal of time with Noam Chomsky, lately talking about si=ilar reasonings to some of your intuitions. proposal is that - =a coherent sentence is one that fits on a shape , that is itself embedded =n a shape space. certain shapes are coherent. others not. ie =C2 notes are easily recognized as belonging to , or not, re=ular in a particular musical piece. (shape). =C2 note. I think it is clear that the common notion a=d use of the term "probability" , is not mathematically =A0 rigorous. some of your earlier work I believe s=ffers from the common misunderstanding . repetition, symmetry , ec.=C2 being necessary, historical events do not have pro=abilites. they are not repetitive. look forwar= to in person or email contact =C2 On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Rupert Sheldra=e > wrote: Dear Ben, Many thanks for your email and thanks for introducing me to Jeffrey. Dear Jeffrey, Thanks so much for your interes=. Do please free to email me, and if you have any plans to come through London let me know, then we could meet in person. All best wishes</a EFTA_R1_01624053 EFTA02498558 Rupert On 15 Jun 2015, at 18:06, Ben Goertzel wrote: Hi Rupert, Hope you're doing well! I =ill soon contact you about potentially supplying a paper to a new book =amien and I are going to edit, on theories of psi and consciousness, a =equel to "Evidence for Psi" ... But for the moment, I'=m emailing to introduce you to Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of mine from N=w York who is interested in your work ... he is a creative scientific t=inker and a successful businessman, who often donates to interesting sc=entific projects (often at major universities or institutes, but someti=es to independent maverick scientists as well) I have known Jeff=ey since 2001 and have enjoyed many conversations and interactions with=him. I have also passed to him your paper in "Evidence=for Psi" ... Jeffrey may follow up with a direct email and you=should please feel free to discuss with him directly ;-) Yours,<=r>Ben Ben Goe=tzel, PhD http://goer=zel.org <http://goertzel.org> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: t=e unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Th=refore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Be=nard Shaw please note confidential, may be=attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is i=tended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE<=r>Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any =art thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have rec=ived this communication in error, please notify us immediately by re=urn e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com> , and destroy this communication an= all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights r=served 2 EFTA_R1_01624054 EFTA02498559