Why isn’t consciousness conventionally defined in terms of the homeostasis of an identity? Consciousness and Homeostasis Damasio in his book ‘The Strange Order of Things’ argues that the core of condition lies in homeostasis. I agree with…medium.com Which is specifically the experience of continuity. Consciousness and the Illusion of Continuity It would be absurd to believe that given the brain’s massively parallel construction that there is only a single thread…medium.com

I’ve always believed that the quirks in the behavior of the human brain were clues to its working. Daniel Kahneman’s observations about thinking fast and slow (i.e. Dual-Process theory) kicked started my journey on this research program. Kahneman is a behavioral psychologist that works on judgment and decision-making. System 1…

All the affordances of an object in a context are not known to an agent unless it is derived. It parallels mathematics. The truths of equalities are unknown until they are tested (i.e. proven). How do we come to know affordances, the useful ways we can interact with our reality…

Steve Jobs has this analogy that computers are bicycles of the mind. The challenge we have today is, how can we make Artificial Intelligence not just a tool that frees us from inconvenience, but one that enhances our own mental capabilities? The new challenge we have today in a…

Growing up, I was always fascinated with the problem of how NATO forces could win against masses of armor from the Warsaw pact. There was vast numerical superiority in the East that the calculus did not favor NATO. There was always this theoretical idea that greater mobility and anti-tank weapons…

Are all robust development processes in biology a consequence of a kind of ‘pair programming’? There’s this practice among prolific writers is to write to generate ideas first and then revisit these to clean up the style. Editing while writing tends to place speed bumps in the idea generation process. …

There’s a wrong idea floating out there that bad concepts are selected out in the information space. This isn’t how it works! Ideas are information objects like viruses. Its hosts are minds. The encapsulating vector drives its infection, not the deadliness of its payload. Minds must have their own immune…

We need a new term to describe systems like GPT-3, DALL-E-2 and PaLM. I propose to call them “artificial fluent” systems. An artificial fluent system renders media (i.e. text, images) with consistency that is precise enough to pass detection by a human. An artificial fluent system is more capable than…

Meta-conceptual frameworks like category theory, constructor theory, Peircian speculative grammar are emerging all ways to formalize complex adaptive systems at the boundaries. They are like most formal models, at best a descriptive model of reality. However they sufficiently abstract to appeal to human capable reasoning and thus aid in setting…