This is a mixed bag.
Tagged categories are: Brain theory (br); Evolution (ev); Epistemology (ep); Philosophy (ph)
Several Subjective Observations (br)
Purpose of neuro feedback between cortex levels (br)
Initial reactions to Chris Adami’s talk.
Vague idea on learned parallel vision tricks (br)
Morphogenesis of Optic Nerve (br)
Evolution of the Brain (ev, br);
Brain Faculties (br)
Creativity by Asimov (ev, br)
Rats and Linked Lists (br)
Theoretical Epistemology (ep)
Practical Epistemology (ep)
Information Perspective on Evolution (ev, br)
Emergent Phenomena (ph)
Math Intuition:
[First Arithmetic;
Gödel and Numbers]
Monkey see Monkey do?
Consciousness nexus
Searle and what Brains do (br, ph)
Penrose on Consciousness (br, ev, ph)
Human Brain Project (br)
Anticipation (br)
Brain Like Computer (br),
more,
more
Frame Cursor (br)
I think that speculation such as this would help design of neuromorphic hardware.
It contrasts with the ‘know-nothing’ imperative I sometimes sense in some workers in the field.
Much of our DNA is clearly to define what it is to be a neuron.
I bet there is a few percent of our DNA devoted to ‘where to run the wires’.
Cogitation (br)
Learning what others know (br, ev, ep)
Learning online
Evolution of Math (br, ev)
Group Selection (ev)
Bitcoin
Fly’s Planning Horizon
Birds and Frogs (ep)
Overlooking the Obvious (br)
Material Implication
How-to vs. What-is (br, ev, ep)
Knowing what you know (br)
Distasteful Memories (br)
Early Prejudice (br, ep)
Kanerva’s notions of how brains remember (br)
Forming Memories (br)
Compressed Memories (br)
Frames, Concepts, Macros and Clichés (br)
Necker.html>Necker Concepts
fleeting thoughts
Intermittent incompetence (br)
Wiki then and now
Me and Social Site
Languages
Free Will (ph)
Brain Simulation (br)
Reductionism (ph)
Bottom Turtle
Complexity of Life
Patterns, Logic, Math, Epistemology, Evolution of thought
Lakoff
The Thing,
Nothingness
Corruption
Pete Holmes
Issues of Trust
Here is the main note on trust,
but here is another note on how we come to believe things, which is very close to issues of trust.
And then there are tall tales.
Trusting financial institutions
Also, is trust transitive?
On AI, too
Who is that? (nyms and reputations)
Crypto augmented
External
KLI Theory Lab
Philosophy: Stanford (ph)
Blum’s Site (br)
Norvig on Chomsky
Neural Nets
Deep Learning
computer teaching pupil models
The Symbol Grounding Problem
How We Think
Conditioned Reflex
Detritus
Hierarchical Temporal Memory; Numenta