Dr. Nadisha-Marie Aliman, M.Sc.

Short profile

  • Facets: Information Theoretician, Autistic Systemizer, Philosopher, Computer Scientist, Computational Linguist, Writer, Cyphartist
  • Past contributions: e.g. in Scientific and Empirical Adversarial AI Attacks (incl. "Deepfake Science" Cases) & Cybersecurity-Oriented Defense Strategies, Adversarial AI, Responsible AI, AI Safety & Security, Cognitive Science, Scientific Evaluation Framework for purported algorithmic "superintelligence" (aka automatable "ASI") achievement claims, Transdisciplinary AI Observatory (incl. AI-Related Epistemic Security & Science), Artificial Creativity Augmentation, VR, AIVR Safety & Security, Socio-Technological Feedback Loop, (Meta-Ethical, Non-Normative and Generic) Augmented Utilitarianism as pluralistic scaffold for local encapsulation within a COOCA-Loop, Cyborgnetic Epistemology, Cyborgnetic Invariance, ....
  • Other topics of interest:  Semiotics, Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cybernetics, Cosmology, Cyborgnetics (twelve autodidactic books), Art (i.a. Poetry and Visual Art), Design Fictions
  • Loose affiliation:  2021– 2024: Visiting postdoctoral scholar at Utrecht University (Department of Information & Computing Sciences). 
  • Cultural background: International (i.a. Sri Lankan, European based in The Netherlands).

Education

  • 2019 – 2020: PhD in Computer Science with a transdisciplinary thesis on "Hybrid Cognitive-Affective Strategies for AI Safety" (which was i.a. related to AI Safety, AI Security, Meta-Ethics (link to thesis; link to CV)); Utrecht University 
  • 2017 – 2018: Master in Computational Linguistics (summa cum laude) with specialization in Cognitive Science and Applied Natural Language Processing and with a focus on Adversarial Machine Learning; University of Stuttgart
  • 2014 – 2017: Bachelor in Computational Linguistics with Computer Science (including Security and Privacy modules) as supplementary subject; Saarland University

Function of website

  • Retrofuturistic archive (i.a. collection of material from a past cyborgnetic monologue about the epistemic future, open access science content creation)   

Selected Publications

1. Selected Articles, Book Chapters and Abstracts

          (Google Scholar profile)

          (PhilPapers)

2. Selected Books

  • Cyborgnetic Invariance, Nadisha-Marie Aliman, 2023 (limited edition) 
  • Cyborgnetics – The Type I vs. Type II Split, Nadisha-Marie Aliman, 2021 (limited edition; physical book viewable at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) (Royal Library of the Netherlands))

3. (Self-)Educational Material

  • Epistemic Security Augmentation (2020-2024) 
  • Epistemic Doom In The Deepfake Era (2024) (link) (Epistemic Art Project π-Doom) (addendum 1 , 2 , 3 and finish)

Miscellaneous

 

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."

(Marilyn vos Savant)

 

"A [...] continuum is something whose possibilities of determination no multitude of individuals can exhaust."

(Charles Sanders Peirce)

 

"Progress in science is often not answering old questions but asking better ones."

(Lisa Feldman Barrett)

 

“[...] What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.”

(Rabindranath Tagore)

 

"To narrate is to create, whilst to live is merely to be lived."

 (Fernando Pessoa)

 

"Anything outside your affective niche is just noise."

(Lisa Feldman Barrett)

 

"Will grows stronger by absorption."

 (Swami Vivekananda)

 

"Truth, being indivisible, cannot know itself [...]."

(Franz Kafka)

 

"The magnification of feeble actions fascinated me."

(Nikola Tesla)

 

"Our epistemic aim is to achieve better explanations [...]."

(Danny Frederick)

  

"Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems."

(Karl Popper)

 

"Happily the peaceful live, discarding both victory and defeat."

(Siddhārtha Gautama)

 

“Not to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”

(Benedict de Spinoza)

 

"Do not ask, 'Who said this?' but pay attention to what is said."

(Thomas à Kempis)

 

"Who is born and who dies? [...] The Infinite is the real; the finite is the play."

(Swami Vivekananda)

 

"To see is to be distant. To see clearly is to halt. To analyze is to be foreign."

(Fernando Pessoa)

 

"The natural assumption is that rationality requires that we act as if our best-tested theories are true. But the natural assumption is false."

(Danny Frederick)

 

"To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity."

(Swami Vivekananda)

 

"It seems silly to say that truth is our aim when we can have no indication that we have got the truth or even that we are approaching it."

(Danny Frederick)

 

“Transcendence transfigures; it does not reconcile, but rather transmutes opposites into something surpassing them that effaces their oppositions.”

(Sri Aurobindo)

 

"He who sees the rope as the snake, for him the rope has vanished, and when the delusion ceases and he looks at the rope, the snake has vanished."

(Swami Vivekananda)

 

"To see something in constantly new ways is to renew and multiply it. [...] There’s infinity in a cell or a desert. One can sleep cosmically against a rock."

(Fernando Pessoa)

 

"Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her." 

(Karl Popper)

 

“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding’.”

(Werner Heisenberg) 

 

"A supermultitudinous collection is so great that its individuals are no longer distinct from one another. [...] A supermultitudinous collection, then, is no longer discrete; but is continuous."

(Charles Sanders Peirce)

 

"The implicate order has to be extended into a multidimensional reality. In principle this reality is one unbroken whole.[...] the holomovement enfolds and unfolds in a multidimensional order, the dimensionality of which is effectively infinite."

(David Bohm)

 

"If we cast apes away, we will diminish ourselves, because we will be making the wrong judgment about them. [...] We will protect a current limitation in us that we would not really want to be protecting, and of which we are even currently unaware."

(Sue Savage-Rumbaugh) 

 

"Rationality permits us to act in accord with our best-tested theories, since they may be true; but it also permits us to act against them, precisely because our best-tested theories may be false and may, indeed, be refuted when we act against them." 

(Danny Frederick)

 

"Universal statements cannot be justified or confirmed by observation-statements. [...] Observation-statements cannot be justified by observations. For, observation-statements inevitably involve theoretical interpretations which may be false."

(Danny Frederick)

  

"It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature." 

(Albert Einstein)

 

"One question more: What is the goal? Nowadays it is asserted that man is infinitely progressing, forward and forward, and there is no goal of perfection to attain to. Ever approaching, never attaining, whatever that may mean and however wonderful it may be, it is absurd on the face of it. Is there any motion in a straight line?"

 (Swami Vivekananda)

 

"We cannot compare our theories with the world. We can compare our theories only with our perception of the world. Our perceptions of the world involve interpretations which may be false. So when we correct a theory because it conflicts with an observation or an observation statement, we are not necessarily showing that the theory is false. It could be that the observation statement is false." 

(Danny Frederick)

 

"Randomness is assumed to be a fundamental but inexplicable and unanalyzable feature of nature, and indeed ultimately of all existence... However, what is randomness in one context may reveal itself as simple orders of necessity in another broader context. It should therefore be clear how important it is to be open to fundamentally new notions of general order, if science is not to be blind to the very important but complex and subtle orders that escape the coarse mesh of the "net" in current ways of thinking."

(David Bohm)

 

"The goal of a critical argument is to produce a rating of rival solutions to a problem, as better or worse, without attempting to prove or justify or establish any of them. The aim is not even to prove or justify or establish that the rating is correct, since it is assumed that any of the premises of the argument may in future be revised. The rating is therefore presented as the upshot of the current state of the discussion which may be improved upon as additional or better information about the hypotheses or their consequences becomes available or as new hypotheses are proposed and evaluated."

(Danny Frederick)

 

"Theories are ways of looking which are neither true nor false, but rather clear and fruitful in certain domains, and unclear and unfruitful when extended beyond these domains[...] The notion of the necessary incompleteness of our knowledge runs counter to the commonly accepted scientific tradition, which has generally taken the form of supposing that science seeks to arrive ultimately at absolute truth, or at least at a steady approach to such truth, through a series of approximations. This tradition has been maintained, in spite of the fact that the actual history of science fits much better into the notion of unending possibilities for new discoveries, approaching no visible limit or end."

(David Bohm)

 

"[...] We can do things to assess, fallibly, that a theory is currently refuted or unrefuted, or that it has greater explanatory merit than its current rivals [...] Our performance indicators for theories identify properties that are logically independent of the theories' truth-values. [...] A judgment concerning whether a theory provides a better explanation than a rival will be agreed (if it is agreed) after a comparison of the two theories with regard to properties that make for better explanations. The judgement is sensitive to that comparison: it is fallible but not entirely arbitrary.[...] But any judgment that a theory is true, or that it is false, is entirely arbitrary, because there is nothing in the state of the discussion that has any logical bearing on the theory's truth or falsity. [...] the supposed factual connection between being a better explanation and being closer to the truth has been refuted by the serpentine progress of the descriptions of the world offered by successive theories in the progress of science."

(Danny Frederick)

 

"To express some fundamental feature of the order of natural process in terms of a universal law is [...] to assert what are the basic differences that are relevant for the whole of this process, and what are the corresponding similarities of these differences. [...] It seems clear that the creative development of science depends quite generally on the perception of the irrelevance of an already known set of fundamental differences and similarities [...] this is the hardest step of all. But once it has taken place, it frees the mind to be attentive, alert, aware and sensitive so it can discover a new order and thus create new structures of ideas and concepts. [...] Thus, a creative new perception leads, as it were, to a new order in the hierarchy of understanding of the laws of nature, which neither imitates the older orders nor denies their validity altogether. Indeed, it serves as it were, to help to put our knowledge of the older laws into a more appropriate order, while at the same time it extends the frontiers of knowledge in quite new ways. But, generally speaking, there is no reason to expect that any given set of natural laws will have an unlimited domain of validity. [...] So, in a way, the order and structure of our knowledge of natural law are always evolving, by a principle similar in certain ways to that of the order and structure of nature: by similar differences, leading to different similarities, in an ever-growing hierarchy of orders, that formed, as it were, a living body of natural law."

(David Bohm)

 

Online articles (archive)

Some online articles I wrote in the past (as a hobby):

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