Lenore Blum
@lenoreblum.bsky.social
Mathematician and Theoretical Computer Scientist (#mathematics, #TCS) interested in #Consciousness and #NeuroAI (#Neuroscience, #AI). Distinguished Career Prof of CS at CMU, Emerita. President, Assoc for MathConscSci (AMCS) (https://amcs-community.org)
Here's a screen shot of your post. Looks like you're saying you have a lot of work since the Graduate Center made a new hire.
September 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Here's a screen shot of your post. Looks like you're saying you have a lot of work since the Graduate Center made a new hire.
Just listened to your very nice talk on my daily walk. Makes perfect sense to consider ensembles rather that individual neurons. Have not listened to the Q&A yet, so my question may have come up. Is there any (math) theory that shows that analog computing is as, or more, powerful than digital,
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Just listened to your very nice talk on my daily walk. Makes perfect sense to consider ensembles rather that individual neurons. Have not listened to the Q&A yet, so my question may have come up. Is there any (math) theory that shows that analog computing is as, or more, powerful than digital,
Thanks! Checking it out it out.
August 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thanks! Checking it out it out.
Blum, Blum, and Blum: hamming it up! 🙃😍🥳
August 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Blum, Blum, and Blum: hamming it up! 🙃😍🥳
San Francisco this AM.
August 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
San Francisco this AM.
64 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍
That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.
#neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML #MIT #CSTheory #consciousnes
That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.
#neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML #MIT #CSTheory #consciousnes
July 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
64 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍
That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.
#neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML #MIT #CSTheory #consciousnes
That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.
#neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML #MIT #CSTheory #consciousnes
"Apropos the Long-Lost Letter from Levinson to Smale, Now Found!", fascinating story about what prompted the discovery of the Smale Horseshoe on the beaches of Rio, by Jair Koiller & Indika Rajapakse in the Notices of the AMS, bit.ly/4kNlL2t #mathematics
Just in time for Smale@95, bit.ly/4eVUzNR
Just in time for Smale@95, bit.ly/4eVUzNR
July 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Apropos the Long-Lost Letter from Levinson to Smale, Now Found!", fascinating story about what prompted the discovery of the Smale Horseshoe on the beaches of Rio, by Jair Koiller & Indika Rajapakse in the Notices of the AMS, bit.ly/4kNlL2t #mathematics
Just in time for Smale@95, bit.ly/4eVUzNR
Just in time for Smale@95, bit.ly/4eVUzNR
Delighted to meet Monima Chadha, another keynote speaker @assc28.bsky.social #assc2025
July 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Delighted to meet Monima Chadha, another keynote speaker @assc28.bsky.social #assc2025
Thrilled to meet Andy Clark who was awarded the inaugural Dan Dennett prize at the ICCS meeting in Heraklion.
July 6, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Thrilled to meet Andy Clark who was awarded the inaugural Dan Dennett prize at the ICCS meeting in Heraklion.
Me at ORD, my first stop on my way to Heraklion.Two more to go.
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Me at ORD, my first stop on my way to Heraklion.Two more to go.
Excellent questions! Though written clearly with human consciousness in mind, Manuel Blum and I addressed them from the vantage point of our formal mathematical model, the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM). See our paper, "AI Consciousness is Inevitable", in arXiv arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17101
May 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Excellent questions! Though written clearly with human consciousness in mind, Manuel Blum and I addressed them from the vantage point of our formal mathematical model, the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM). See our paper, "AI Consciousness is Inevitable", in arXiv arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17101
Excited & a bit nervous to be talking in BreakthroughDiscuss at Oxford, April 23 (&24). I will outline the formal co-evolution of Brainish & the Model-of-the-World in the Conscious Turing Machine, core to its subjective consciousness.Talk is max 18 minutes,so let's see what I can do.
bit.ly/3E4DSS8
bit.ly/3E4DSS8
April 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Excited & a bit nervous to be talking in BreakthroughDiscuss at Oxford, April 23 (&24). I will outline the formal co-evolution of Brainish & the Model-of-the-World in the Conscious Turing Machine, core to its subjective consciousness.Talk is max 18 minutes,so let's see what I can do.
bit.ly/3E4DSS8
bit.ly/3E4DSS8
Sun about to set over the Golden Gate.
January 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Sun about to set over the Golden Gate.
Here is my attempt to capture the SF 2025 NewYear's fireworks on my iphone from across the Bay.
January 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here is my attempt to capture the SF 2025 NewYear's fireworks on my iphone from across the Bay.
Best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!
SF and the Golden Gate, New Year's eve 2024
SF and the Golden Gate, New Year's eve 2024
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!
SF and the Golden Gate, New Year's eve 2024
SF and the Golden Gate, New Year's eve 2024
Sunset behind the city in the sky.
December 30, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Sunset behind the city in the sky.
We have an arXiv paper on "free will" in the context of the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM). May be of interest. See, arxiv.org/pdf/2206.139...
For an overview of the CTM, see Section 2 of "AI Consciousness is Inevitable": arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17101
For an overview of the CTM, see Section 2 of "AI Consciousness is Inevitable": arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17101
December 6, 2024 at 8:57 PM
We have an arXiv paper on "free will" in the context of the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM). May be of interest. See, arxiv.org/pdf/2206.139...
For an overview of the CTM, see Section 2 of "AI Consciousness is Inevitable": arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17101
For an overview of the CTM, see Section 2 of "AI Consciousness is Inevitable": arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17101
Scene thru my window, today, Pittsburgh.
November 26, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Scene thru my window, today, Pittsburgh.