80 4 Brief Survey of Cognitive Architectures 4.5.2 The Society of Mind and the Emotion Machine In his influential but controversial book The Society of Mind [Min&8], Marvin Minsky described a model of human intelligence as something that is built up from the interactions of num...
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Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It’s about building a system to replace yourself. This is the first exercise. Even if you have no intention of becoming an entrepreneur, this is the ultimate continuation of our 80/20 and elimination process: Prepar...
von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...
23 Article 6. Scientific American How the Brain Understands Food and Appetite [Excerpt] David Linden Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a chapter in the book Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Le...
340 A Glossary e Request for Services (RFS): In CogPrime’s Goal-driven action system, a RFS is a package sent from a Goal Atom to another Atom, offering it a certain amount of STI currency if it is able to deliver the goal what it wants (an increase in its Truth Value). RFS’s ma...
How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools 199 of a fraudulent institution. He reacted the way you might expect and demanded an explanation. I asked him if he thought the average stu- dent attending the University of Illinois was going there because she figured aft...
…m/ -- [back] KOK ok S&M: S&M Superpowers 1. Study demonstrates that BDSM desires do not arise from abuse: http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/bondage-lovers-normal-maybe-even-happier/story- e6frfkp9-1111117296864 -- [back] 2. A post of mine on nonsensical stigma, in the conte...
between lower-level physical or homeostatic challenges and higher-level psychological and social stressors. Basic homeostatic reflexes, reflexes that keep in balance various critical bodily processes such as blood pressure, body temperature, and blood sugar, are largely hard-wire...
tend to leave them within this arena even if they lose particular capacities. Conversely, if scientists discover that an organism outside the arena of moral patient-hood has capacities of experience and agency that are on a par with those inside the arena, this evidence often pro...
…e reduced to more manageable proportions by hacking into the personnel records of the intelligence workers seeking to renew their security clearance. The Internet provided the SVR with just this opportunity. As discussed in the previous chapter, holes in the security of the compu...
70 Teaching Minds types of cases there are. Is it hard to gather evidence properly? Prob- ably. It usually is. Is it hard to know all the possible results? It might not be. It might be hard to decide on a result, however, since the result is usually to pay some amount of money,...
financial resources to hire the most talented workers in the field, enhancing their power even further. We have been giving away valuable data for the sake of freebies like Gmail and Facebook, but as the journalist and author John Lanchester has pointed out in the London Review o...
… chip information diet afterward, fine, but beginning tomorrow and for at least five full days, here are the rules: No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever (cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com 10 etc.)...
346 A Glossary Goe08. Ben Goertzel. A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied ais with human-level lin- guistic capability. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2008. Goe09a. Ben Goertzel. Cognitive synergy: A universal principle of feasible gener...
…ance, suppose we observe Israel killing civil- ians as a by-product of a strategic raid on Hamas militants. Even if we knew Israel had intelligence that confirmed the presence of civilians, we might not be sure oth- ers were privy to this information. On the other hand, when the...