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Walk Softly and Carry an Appropriately Sized Stick

January 8, 2022July 26, 2022 Sam Kenyon 7 mins read

Polymorphism in Mental Development What does a crow with a stick have to do with computer programming? And AI? Before we get there, I propose […]

ai, interfaces

Strong AI is a Design Problem

November 27, 2021July 26, 2022 Sam Kenyon 10 mins read

Human-level artificial intelligence is a design problem. Design and Specialization “Design” probably brings to mind various professions dealing with design of form, such as industrial […]

ai, cogarch, interfaces

What is a Room?

November 17, 2021August 1, 2022 Sam Kenyon 3 mins read

No, seriously, what even is a “room?” We all share the concept of rooms. I suspect it’s common and abstract enough to span cultures and […]

ai, interfaces

Your Visual System is Lying

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Sam Kenyon 5 mins read

A Tale of Two Visions Does a hill appear steeper when you are already exhausted? Is it true that baseballs appear larger to players when […]

ai, interfaces

Dance of Consciousness

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Sam Kenyon 3 mins read

According 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. […]

ai, future, interfaces

Evolution Of Consciousness

November 13, 2021November 14, 2021 Sam Kenyon 3 mins read

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 […]

cogarch, interfaces

The Seed and the Flower

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Sam Kenyon 6 mins read

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 […]

ai, interfaces

Do We Need Fuzzy Substrates?

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Sam Kenyon 3 mins read

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, […]

ai, cogarch, interfaces

All Minds Are Real-Time Control Systems

October 9, 2021October 31, 2021 Sam Kenyon 7 mins read

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 […]

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Metaphysics of Interfaces

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Sam Kenyon 4 mins read

We have an everyday sense of “interfaces.” You press an icon on your phone—an app opens. Behind the scenes thousands of computer things happened but […]

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