Re: [FRIAM] IS:New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality | WIRED WAS: Layers, not broilers

My 1988 dissertation included a proposal for a model of cognition: vTAO — virtual Topographic Adaptive Organism — derived in part from Hopfield's 'neural net as water flowing over a landscape' metaphor. My model, in a militantly non-mathematical manner, offered an account for how

Re: [FRIAM] IS:New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality | WIRED WAS: Layers, not broilers

And, just in case y'all missed it in all the noise, here's ScottA's response I posted in the Graph/Network discursion: On 06/09/2017 03:14 PM, gepr ⛧ wrote: > > Higher-level causation exists (but I wish it didn’t) > http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3294 And in there is an update

Re: [FRIAM] IS:New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality | WIRED WAS: Layers, not broilers

I just read through the article and was equally intrigued and disappointed... intrigued by some of the ideas presented and disappointed by the (mostly) superficial treatment in the article... of course, it is at the right level for the audience I think, so no harm, no foul... I just need to

Re: [FRIAM] IS:New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality | WIRED WAS: Layers, not broilers

I wonder how Hoel gets along with my erstwhile boss, Clark Glymour, whose field is also causation and mind and who is also at Carnegie Mellon. This spell corrector is getting out of control. It changed "Hoel" to "Joel" and "also" to "alcohol". Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Jun

Re: [FRIAM] IS:New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality | WIRED WAS: Layers, not broilers

Cult of the individual, Mathematics Edition. Wait till he gives his TED talk. Sheesh, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] IS:New Math Untangles the Mysterious Nature of Causality | WIRED WAS: Layers, not broilers

> > https://www.wired.com/story/new-math-untangles-the-mysterious-nature-of- > causality-consciousness/ > > I think you all will like this. I actually think I disapprove, but it’s > late and I cannot remember why. > > Courtesy of a friend. > > ​Love the article, and it seemed reasonably precise.