What, Why & How do we Know ?
Communication of intentA variation on send three and fourpence ….Seen pinned to many an office screen.This copy lifted from David Stern’s Genesis project siteQuoteHow Shit Happens… In the Beginning was The PlanAnd then came the AssumptionsAnd the Assumptions were without formAnd the Plan was completely without substanceAnd the darkness was upon the face of the … Continue reading “How Shit Happens”
New thread from BCS to the Mind-Matter Unification ProjectBrian Josephson (Nobel Laureate) at Cavendish Labs, Cambridge Uni PhysicsMore Quantum Physics and Cognition stuff.Also a behavioural “chaos” example (?) of synchronisation in the Millennium Bridge problems.
Sample meme initiated on SlashdotPoints to a game theory article on cooperative strategy which competes successfully against freeloaders.Useful thoughts about peer to peer systems. HolisticConcerning the interconnectedness of things as systems,considering things as wholes, rather than simply the sum of their parts Heuristic Learning or problem solving by discovery and feedback, trial and error.(From both … Continue reading “Meme Collaborates Against Freeloaders ?”
Ventrella – Artificial Life site,plus fractal art and a few philosphical goodies. BCS (British Computer Society) Cybernetics specialist groupSeries of interesting subject areas around Cognition and Quantum PhysicsQuotefrom State of the Art Report from Peter J. Marcer, chairman, dated 18/06/01This ability of qubits [Quantum Bits] to ‘register’ both 1 and 0 at the same time, … Continue reading “A-Life & Quantum Computing”
Wittgenstein biography review in the Guardian(from Robot Wisdom Weblog – offline copy saved too.) Bite the Wax TadpoleAnother whacky, but thought provoking blog
The Golden Section – Hans WalserThe golden ratio meets Pentangles, Fractals, Pythagoras and the 80/20 rule.(Plus the usual Fibonacci series and natural patterns etc…..)(Pythagoras meets Fuzzy Logic in Kosko)(Fractals meet Chaos and Fuzzy Logic everywhere)80/20 naturally inherent in pentangles & pentagons (fifths)But, Golden Ratio also inherent in these shapes and important related solids / hypersolids.72/18 … Continue reading “Golden Ratio Meets Chaos & Fuzzy Logic”
The Seven Wonders of the Web – The GuardianIncludes Blogger (along with Google at No.1) with some good historical perspective of the significance of the web a la Douglas Adams. Cognitive-Affective Model by Dov Te’eni from MISQInteresting – right in the intro to the paper includes “People ….make clever adaptations ….” Clever !Have ongoing debates … Continue reading “Seven Wonders of the Web”
Just finished Bart Kosko – Fuzzy Thinking (1993)Excellent read, though Kosko does not seem to find favour with later non-classical logicians – many notes recorded (see bibliography). Focussed on machine AI and control systems – but many analogous applications apparent. Some points that stick instantly …..(1) Reasons given for decisions / actions (eg to an … Continue reading “Kosko’s Fuzzy Thinking”