Results for “Natural History”

… exercise. In the context of doing that exercise, assuming there was good justification for it, that knowledge would be naturally learned. Natural learning of factual knowledge, learning it when it comes up, is fine, as long as it isn’t being learned so that it can be tested. It...

… a direction that is pursued in Section 7.3 below. Note that this is an external perspective of system goals, which is natural from the perspective of formally defining system intelligence in terms of system behavior, but is not necessarily very natural in terms of system design...

natural mountain spring: No matter what mud is thrown in, itis simply and naturally bubbled away into clarity. From E’Mei temple, with this fresh, clear-running mind, Nan began a quest to sharpen his spirit even further. The journey took him, for nearly a decade, from master to...

… systems can encompass all of them. Also, as we will note below, human ethics develops in childhood through a series of natural stages, parallel to and entwined with the cognitive developmental stages reviewed in Chapter 11 above. We will argue that for an AGI with a virtual or r...

court. The president called home to tell his friends how natural and easy this was, and how, inexplicably and suspiciously, Obama had messed it all up. There “has been a little strain, but there won’t be strain with this administration,” the president assured Hamad bin Isa Al Kha...

…cation, in a CogPrime context. Subsymbolic: Involving processing of data using elements that have no correspondence to natural language terms, nor abstract concepts; and that are not naturally interpreted as symbolically “standing for’ other things. Often used to refer to proces...

… in arguing that Christian love did not build on what the Greek philosophers called eros. He claimed eros refers to the natural desires of humans to have and unite with the goods of life. This includes the goods of health, wealth, affiliation, and pleasure but it also includes th...

…has turned into an economic headache for Egypt's new military rulers: The pipeline that supplies 40 percent of Israel's natural gas has been bombed five times since the revolution, halting the country's natural gas exports. But more importantly, Sinai has become a breeding ground...

…he end of that vulnerable status of perpetual minority, an end to exile and alienation, and a beginning of a normal and natural form of national existence. Israel was home, the new home in the old country, proclaiming that the Jews had formed a self-reliant community and did not...

…l - pure math, philosophy (discovered or invented), physics (Wigner's 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences)', astrophysics, cosmology, biology, general systems theory. I've felt frustrated in this first episode because there is so much material. I th...

…United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe—with one exception—are not easy to find in Japan. A natural place to look for evidence of influence-peddling would be in Chinese support for the left-wing Japanese peace groups that have long investigated and pub...

… to survival. “The applicability of the concept,” Smith and Szathmary conclude, “extends across the whole of social and natural sciences.” Inside cells. In ecosystem webs of coral or rainforest. In traffic management. Successful evolution was, they found, always co- evolution. “I...

…l - pure math, philosophy (discovered or invented), physics (Wigner's 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences)', astrophysics, cosmology, biology, general systems theory. I've felt frustrated in this first episode because there is so much material. I th...

…l - pure math, philosophy (discovered or invented), physics (Wigner's 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences)', astrophysics, cosmology, biology, general systems theory. I've felt frustrated in this first episode because there is so much material. I th...

…l - pure math, philosophy (discovered or invented), physics (Wigner's 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences)', astrophysics, cosmology, biology, general systems theory. I've felt frustrated in this first episode because there is so much material. I th...