Primary Sequence

• The Walking Ape
• Born To Run: a theory of human anatomy
• Cooking and the Hominid Revolution
• The Domestication of Sapiens
• Reverse Dominance Hierarchy

Ancillary Material

• An Introduction to Primate Societies
• An Introduction To Domestication
• [Excerpt] Self-Domestication and Human Homosexuality
• [Overview] The Deep History of Humanity
• [Excerpt] When Language Evolved
• [Excerpt] Linear Grammar as Protolanguage
• [Excerpt] Social Intelligence in Chimpanzees

Material From Other Sequences

• The Argumentative Theory of Reasoning
• The Evolution of Disgust

Primary sequence

1. The cognitive basis of religion
2. Supernatural Punishment Hypothesis
3. The Evolution of God
4. Understanding Ritual
5. A Natural History of Religion

Related Content

• Evolution of Faith describes why humans sometimes privilege social learning above individual learning
• History sequence contains 5+ articles on the history of ancient Israel.
• The Relational Sphere Hypothesis. Outdated

Central Principles sequence

• Regression vs. Classification
• Bias vs. Variance
• Intro to Gradient Descent
• Intro to Regularization

Optimization Techniques sequence

• Least Squares Estimation via Projection

Sociology of ML

• Five Tribes of Machine Learning
• New Foundations: Towards Tribal Unity

Related sequences

• Reinforcement Learning sequence
• Optimization Maths sequence

Logic

• Logic Structure: Connective Rules in IPL
• Logic Design: Harmony in IPL
• Logic Inference: Natural Deduction
• Logic Inference: Sequent Calculus

Set Theory

• An Introduction to Set Theory
• Relations and Functions
• Injection, Surjection, Bijection

Abstract Algebra

• An Introduction to Abstract Algebra
• An Introduction to Geometric Group Theory
• The Symmetric Group
• Cosets and Normality
• Semirings as Algorithmic Parameters

Linear Algebra

• An Introduction to Linear Algebra
• Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
• Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
• Least Squares Estimation via Projection Matrices

Category Theory

• An Introduction to Category Theory [Part One]
• Computational Trinitarianism

Related sequences

• Language sequence

Prerequisite

• An Introduction To Group Theory
• An Introduction To Probability Theory
• An Introduction To Linear Algebra

Main Sequence

• Least Squares
• An Introduction to Linear Optimization
• Duality: Algorithmic Dark Matter
• Convex Analysis
• An Introduction to Convex Optimization

Background

• An Introduction To Bayesian Inference

Main Sequence

• An Introduction To Communication
• Error Correcting Codes
• Entropy As Belief Uncertainty

 

Part of: Demystifying Consciousness sequence

Suggested Prereading:

• Cognitive Epistemology
• Knowledge: An Empirical Sketch
• Machery: Doing Without Concepts
• The Three Stream Hypothesis

Core Sequence:

• Nouns Are Ephemeral, Adjectives Are Forever
• Perceptual Objects: Two Novel Hypotheses
• The Language of Consciousness
• Perceptual Objects: Implications for AI and Philosophy
• Object Mechanics
• The Role of Hippocampus

Life sequence

• [Excerpt] Replicators vs Vehicles
• Organisms As Free Energy Minimization Devices

Evolution sequence

• An Introduction To Population Genetics
• An Introduction To Natural Selection
• Ecology Embeds Gene-Space In The Biosphere
• An Introduction To Common Descent
• Deep Homology: our shared genetic toolkit

Life History sequence

• The Evolution of Senescence
• The Pace of Life

Brain Evolution sequence

• Evolution of Basal Ganglia
• Evolutionary Game Theory

Earth Science sequence

• Into to Continental Drift

Older Posts

• [Excerpt] The Hiccups Of Your Inner Fish
• Robert Sapolsky – The Trouble With Testosterone
• Quotes from Robert Sapolsky – Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
• Quotes from On The Origin Of Species

The first three posts of this sequence set up two important challenges facing modern science:

• How do scientists go about decompressing structure?
• Can category theory absorb the field of statistics?

The final post of this sequence suggests that these questions are in fact, the same.

Article List

1. An Introduction To Structural Realism
2. The Mathematical Structure Of Physics
3. On Bridging The Archipelago
4. The Microcosm Of Computer Science