from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices and gener...
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Appendix 5 ~~ Index of Theorems have explained a number famous theorems in this book along with [= ideas of my own. Here is a list of the most notable. 1. Mind over Computer Turing Test — How to tell whether a computer is intelligent, even though we cannot agree on a definitio...
common way for electrical circuits, computer programs, brain mechanisms and other complicated systems, even cultural or spiritual movements, to behave when one or more important control parameters crosses a threshold. Doyne Farmer of the Los Alamos’s Prediction Company once said...
…ikPk k=1,kAi,j 1 Aw = — (pips — hisps — hyivi) 13.4.2 Knowledge Representation via Cell Assemblies Hopfield nets and their ilk play a dual role: as computational algorithms, and as conceptual models of brain function. In CogPrime they are used as inspiration for slightly diffe...
THE UNITY OF INTELLIGENCE Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek is Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, and the author of A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design. I. A Simple Answer to Contentious Questions: e Can an artif...
The second field trip was a 30-day tour of Chinese family and food (pig face, anyone’), ending with Shumei Wu becoming Shumei Camarillo. Back in Palo Alto, HP continued its quest for world domination, neither knowing nor caring where Dave was. He had his calls forwarded to his ne...
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We were paying them as homo habilis two million years ago. The cost went up, but the value of innovation just as much, when homo erectus arrived a little later. Both rose again with the emergence of Ancestral Eve 200,000 years ago. Adaptation is the human specialty. Its what gets...
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* Research on each of the 13 episodes is ongoing and we are moving towards creating a short list of the top contributors per episode (with some contributors in multiple episodes). * We are aggregating the top contributors around 4 to 5 central locations, such as SF Bay Area, LA,...
…sing graphics and animation companies and researching styles and graphic ideas that we might use to communicate some of the more complex ideas. * Our digital team is researching a web extension for the www.closertotruth.com website, developing ideas for a dedicated site neighbor...
124 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? Their reasoning is straightforward but has generated a great deal of controversy. Hameroff observes that anesthetics cause humans to lose consciousness by binding to tubulin, but they do not halt all brain function. He, therefore, concludes our...
Turing’s Machine 215 The advantage of this cipher is that I can easily remember the name George. I don’t need to write it down. And the circular application makes the message sufficiently obscure you cantt easily work it out... Is this, therefore, a good code? No. This cipher...
…H RA P.@5 ATTACHMENT A SUBPOENA TO PAUL A. LAVERY 1. All computer equipment and electronic storage media removed from the residence located at 358 E] Brillo Way, Palm Beach, Florida, including but not limited to central processing units (“CPUs”), laptop computers, keyboards, ‘p...