As I understand the way you guys and AI generally work, you create
well-organized spaces which your programs can systematically search for
options. Let's call them "nets" - which have systematic, well-defined and
orderly-laid-out connections between nodes.
But it seems clear that natural systems create totally different
"structures", or almost "anti-structures" of information. The WWW is indeed
a "web" of information, with the "nodes" haphazardly "linked" to each other,
without any prior system or planning, (only at best, some v. v. basic,
simple rules about for example how links work). Steven Johnson talks of the
growth of such webs as like a "data fungus."
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_johnson_on_the_web_as_a_city.html
And, actually, that I suggest is largely how the brain creates its own
"webs" of info., as opposed to organized spaces. You didn't learn about sex,
for example, in any organized, rational way. An anecdote here, a few jokes
there, the sight of some physical activity there, a sexual manual there,
massive amounts of porn and so on, all higgledy-piggledy, freely
associated/linked together. A crazy jungle of info rather than a well laid
out garden.
And when you think about sex, that web as opposed to any rational space, is
what your brain brings to bear on the subject.
The distinction between "webs" and "nets" as different kinds of "data
structures", seems fundamental and worth exploring. Does such a distinction
exist already, and has it been explored?
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