Sam KenyonOr, the Study of Non-Elephants The only flowers which men have built directly, piece by piece, are plastic flowers. If you want to make a […]
Category: cogarch
Heterarchies and Society of Mind’s Origins
One of the key ideas of Society of Mind is that at some range of abstraction levels, your wetware is a bunch of asynchronous agents. […]
Multitasking and Cognitive Architecture
Some have pointed out the supposed increase in multitasking during recent decades. Certainly a fascinating sociocultural change. However, humans are not capable of true multitasking. […]
Defining Emotion
What are emotions and why would we put them in AI? In 2003 I started looking at the science of emotion in order to determine […]
All Minds Are Real-Time Control Systems
I conjecture that all minds are real-time control systems. Creatures and Real-Time Systems Let’s consider some artificial creatures that exist in either the real world […]
What are Symbols in AI?
A main underlying philosophy of artificial intelligence and cognitive science is that cognition is computation. “Cognition is computation” leads to the notion of symbols within […]
Intro: Will the Real AI Please Stand Up?
When I was a kid I learned C++ with a book that teaches by programming a fake robot dog. I bought it for $1 at […]