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mirror mirror: The Self is a Community
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Thursday, September 15, 2011. The Self is a Community. Very interesting post here. Both to produce the experience of individuality and the experience of community. A question for my students: what would this theory suggest about the notion of artistic "voice"? September 16, 2011 at 5:33 AM. Interesting post, Brian. I remember when that NYT article about the twins came out, it is exciting to see how they operate. Im not sure that...
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mirror mirror: The Elegance of Empathy
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Wednesday, September 15, 2010. The Elegance of Empathy. I want to read. Something [that] moves house inside me—yes, how else to describe it? I have the preposterous feeling that one existing inner living space has been replaced by another. Does that never happen to you? A reapportioning of space, yes (of memory/storage space? But also a derangement of time:. She has taught philosophy at Bourgogne and Saint-Lo). The book approach...
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mirror mirror: Can Computers Learn Natural Langauges?
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Thursday, July 14, 2011. Can Computers Learn Natural Langauges? Apparently so: http:/ www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712133330.htm. And if the ability to use information for creative ends, as I suggested in an earlier post, defines "knowledge", then this story suggests that computers can acquire knowledge. What remains to be seen, though, is whether can be. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hofstadter made it up.
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mirror mirror: Secret Agents
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Tuesday, August 10, 2010. New York Times ethics columnist Randy Cohen. Appeared on NPR’s “On Point”. Cohen’s first point that caught my attention was that humans have an ethical/moral faculty only because that faculty has evolved in them. Faculties that evolve have a reason for evolving (a function), and in humans that faculty functions to make it easier for groups of humans to live together. Was first) " memes. Even while putti...
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mirror mirror: Who is...?
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Monday, February 14, 2011. In the struggle to create an artificial intelligence that is truly “intelligent”, rather than a mere imitation of intelligence, the greatest obstacle may be ambiguity. AI software tends to have trouble with teasing out the meanings of puns, for example; it’s one of the ways of getting a machine to fail the Turing Test. This story from NPR. To relate to those words. Have experience (of course! This argu...
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mirror mirror: The Picture Gradually Comes into Focus
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Friday, November 5, 2010. The Picture Gradually Comes into Focus. More and more research confirms memory distribution in the brain, providing answers to many questions such as why it is that local brain injury doesn't cause more global memory loss, the way other functions are frequently affected by local injuries. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What the heck is "thinkodynamics"? Hofstadter made it up. Books by Brian Clements.
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All Hook, No Chorus--Sara Jaffe: The Condition of Being Addressable--A Response to Claudia Rankine at AWP
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The Condition of Being Addressable- A Response to Claudia Rankine at AWP. The following is a response to a “performance of sorts” (her words) that Claudia Rankine gave on February 4, 2011, at the AWP conference in Washington, DC. I took some notes, but not as many as I’d have liked, so know that much of this is recollection and paraphrase. Thanks to Tisa Bryant for filling in some gaps in her smart and moving response. This is what it means to be alive. Was she the “big, black girl”? She contacted Hoagla...
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mirror mirror: Environmentalist Laureate
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Thursday, July 1, 2010. Is the new U. S. Poet Laureate: http:/ www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-157.html. July 10, 2010 at 5:49 PM. Fascinating news - and applause-worthy! I just ran upstairs to get my copy of Migration and read some of his poems in celebration. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What the heck is "thinkodynamics"? Hofstadter made it up. View my complete profile. Recent Books and Articles of Interest.
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mirror mirror: I, Human
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An ongoing meditation and discussion on thinkodynamics, poetry, and poetics. Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Poet, philosopher, and science writer Brian Christian has a fun piece in the March 2011. Which is adapted from his book. The Most Human Human. The Turing Test is intended to test whether an artificial intelligence can “think”— the test assumes that we would know that the artificial intelligence is capable of thinking if it can convince us in a blind conversation that it is human. Self Comes to Mind. What d...