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AI Don’t Know Jack?

November 10, 2021December 4, 2021 Sam Kenyon 9 mins read

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 […]

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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 […]

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Heterarchies and Society of Mind’s Origins

November 3, 2021August 1, 2022 Sam Kenyon 4 mins read

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. […]

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Failure Does Not Necessarily Mean a Theory is Wrong

November 2, 2021July 23, 2022 Sam Kenyon 4 mins read

Many use a metaphor of the type “theory T has failed to explain phenomenon P” or “the field of F has failed…” For example: The […]

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Goals and Music

November 1, 2021August 1, 2022 Sam Kenyon 2 mins read

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 […]

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Multitasking and Cognitive Architecture

October 31, 2021August 1, 2022 Sam Kenyon 8 mins read

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. […]

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Defining Emotion

October 30, 2021October 31, 2021 Sam Kenyon 8 mins read

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 […]

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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, […]

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Learning How to Make Robots in 2001

October 11, 2021April 22, 2022 Sam Kenyon 18 mins read

No, that’s not a typo—I do not mean 2021, I really mean the year 2001 as in 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is the story […]

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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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