Sam KenyonPolymorphism in Mental Development What does a crow with a stick have to do with computer programming? And AI? Before we get there, I propose […]
Category: interfaces
Strong AI is a Design Problem
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 […]
What is a Room?
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 […]
Your Visual System is Lying
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 […]
Dance of Consciousness
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. […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Metaphysics of Interfaces
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 […]