Consciousness
Culture and Ideology are not Your Friends
Would it be wrong to call this some kind of multi-layer competency architecture?
Henrik Karlsson • Two Kinds of Introspection
There’s some parallel here to how Michael Levin is thinking about testing intelligent systems. You can’t be a “passive observer”. You have to actively change the environment of the system and see how it reacts.
Build Your Own Damn Wagon
Damn. I’ve always wondered about this. “ontogeny recaps phylogeny” - how does that fit in with Ken Wilber’s “levels of thinking” stuff?
So I claim that teleology is a subset of the spectrum of intelligence. And what I mean by intelligence is this: William James gave a nice, very cybernetic definition of intelligence. He didn't talk about brains. He didn't talk about what problem space was involved. He said it's the ability to reach the same goal by different means.
Reach the same
... See more"Nothing in biology makes sense without teleology" by Michael Levin
“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel today what one felt yesterday is not to feel—it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. To erase everything from the slate from one day to the next, to be new with each... See more
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Build Your Own Damn Wagon
to me the most amazing thing about regeneration is that they know when to stop. Knowing when to stop is because you've rebuilt the same structure, meaning you've gone back to the same region of anatomical space within some small error is basically anatomical homeostasis. It is goal-directed because the system has a set point. If you deviate from
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—John Stuart Mill
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
I often think about the example of the electromagnetic spectrum. So prior to having a good theory of electromagnetism, we used to first of all think that static electricity, lightning, magnets, and light were all completely different things. They certainly seemed like different things. We had different words for them. The vocabulary that we used
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