Sam KenyonAccording to philosopher Alva Noë: Consciousness is more like dancing than it is like digestion. I.e., consciousness happens while you are interfacing with the world. […]
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Evolution Of Consciousness
Many years ago I attended a talk by the artist/engineer Jeff Lieberman, who amongst many other things invented the Slow Dance, a “picture frame that […]
The Flattening of AI
Much in the same way that our eyes refresh our view through continual movement,the means to rise up and upend our thinking are found in […]
AI Don’t Know Jack?
The Symbol Grounding Problem Think your AI understands the meanings of words? Or understands anything at all? Guess again. It probably doesn’t! There’s a big […]
The Seed and the Flower
Or, 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 […]
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. […]
Goals and Music
One of the first digital music contraptions was made in 1972. The Triadex Muse was an algorithmic music generator using digital logic, and was designed […]
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 […]
Do We Need Fuzzy Substrates?
Computers are embedded in almost all of our devices, and most of them are digital. Information at the low levels is stored as binary. Biology, […]