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10:21, 5 October 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Society of Mind (Created page with "== 1. Prologue == * The Agents of the Mind * The Mind and the Brain * The Society of Mind * The World of Blocks * Common Sense * Agents and Agencies == 2. Wholes and Parts == * Components and Connections * Novelists and Reductionists * Parts and Wholes * Holes and Parts * Easy Things are Hard * Are People Machines? == 3. Conflict and Compromise == * Conflict * Noncompromise * Hierarchies * Heterarchies * Destructiveness * Pain and Pleasure Simplified == 4. The Self...") Tag: Visual edit
11:02, 30 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Damed to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (content was: "Paris Addresses: * [https://share.google/VgrmXfaURJMm2Xqoy 6 rue des Favorites, 75015] * [https://share.google/qEbuIUv7SwquW2DkQ 38 Blvd Saint-Jacques, 75014] * EHPAD Le Tier temps, [https://maps.app.goo.gl/k5PeTVHuxqF3nhhC9 24-26 Rue Rémy Dumoncel] * Cottage at [https://share.google/ZDtkNGytCIZVgrTzu Ussy-Sur-Marne] * 122 - True art has nothing t...", and the only contributor was "Robert.adlington" (talk))
09:02, 21 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Real Numbers (Created page with "== Number Sets == * N: Natural Numbers - ie all whole numbers - 0,1,2... onwards * Z: Integers - ie all N plus negative integers - -2,-1,0,1,2... * D: Decimals - ie all Z plus fractions that * Q: Rationals - ie * R: Reals - ie all Q plus the irrationals, which are decimals that neither terminate nor recurr")
08:45, 21 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Maths (Created page with "I'm following the French "Seconde" maths curriculum to fill in the gaps in my maths knowledge, translating it all here into English: * Real Numbers * Arithmetic * Literal Calculation * Vectors * Geometry * Lines * Reference Functions * Functions * Quantitative Data * Probability * Sampling?") Tag: Visual edit
11:42, 14 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Le Bilan de L'intelligence (Created page with "* L'interruption, l'incohérence, la surprise sont des conditions ordinaires de notre vie * Nous ne supportons plus la durée. Nous ne savons plus féconder l'ennui. Notre nature a horreur du vide, - ce vide sur lequel les esprits de jadis savaient peindre les images de leurs idéaux, leurs Idées, au sens de Platon. * 1800 - la découverte du courant électrique. * ...quel effort d'adaptation s'impose à une race si longtemps enfermée dans la contemplation et l'utilisa...") Tag: Visual edit
10:38, 13 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Gravity's Rainbow (Created page with "* What the dossiers call Pirate Prentice is a strange talent for - well, for getting inside the fantasies of others: being able, actually, to take over the burden of managing them..." * ...the images often changing scale so quickly, so unpredictably that you're apt now and then to get a bit of lime-green in with your rose, as they say. The scenes are highlights from Pirate's career as a fantasist-surrogate, and go back to when he was carrying, everywhere he went, the mar...") Tag: Visual edit
17:21, 8 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (Created page with "Paris Addresses: * [https://share.google/VgrmXfaURJMm2Xqoy 6 rue des Favorites, 75015] * [https://share.google/qEbuIUv7SwquW2DkQ 38 Blvd Saint-Jacques, 75014] * EHPAD Le Tier temps, [https://maps.app.goo.gl/k5PeTVHuxqF3nhhC9 24-26 Rue Rémy Dumoncel] * Cottage at [https://share.google/ZDtkNGytCIZVgrTzu Ussy-Sur-Marne] * 122 - True art has nothing to do with the Cartesian clear and distinct and that ultimately it tires in the murky waters of the inexplicable. * 146 - Co...")
16:35, 6 September 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Damed to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (Created page with "* 122 - True art has nothing to do with the Cartesian clear and distinct and that ultimately it tires in the murky waters of the inexplicable. * 146 - Coherence, artifice, unity were regarded by Beckett as belonging to the "chloroformed world" of Balzac's novels, where, he claimed, characters are turned into "clockwork cabbages" on whom the novelist can "rely on their staying put wherever needed or staying going at whatever speed in whatever direction he chooses". * 147...") Tag: Visual edit
10:50, 28 August 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Reading for the Plot (Created page with "=== Preface === * Plot as I conceive it is the design and intention of narrative, what shapes a story and gives it a certain direction or intent of meaning. * Our common sense of plot - our capacity to recognize its common forms and their characteristics - derives from many sources, including no doubt the stories of our childhood. * Most of all, perhaps, it has been molded by the great 19th C narrative tradition that, in history, philosophy, and a host of other fields a...") Tag: Visual edit
08:17, 7 August 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Created page with "* Part I: Metalogues ** Why do Things Get in a Muddle ** Why do Frenchmen? ** About Games and Being Serious ** How Much Do You Know? ** Why Do Things Have Outlines? ** Why a Swan? ** What is an Instinct? * Part II: Form and Pattern in Anthropology ** Culture Contact and Schismogenesis ** Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Behavior ** Morale and National Character ** Bali: The Value System of a Steady State ** Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive A...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
14:17, 26 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Alan Turing: The Enigma (Created page with "== Part One: The Logical == === 1. Esprit de Corps (to 13 February 1930) === === 2. The Spirit of Truth (to 14 April 1936) === === 3. New Men (to 3 September 1939) === === 4. The Relay Race (to 10 November 1942 === == Bridge Passage (to 1 April 1943) == == Part Two: The Physical == === 5. Running Up (to 2 September 1945) === === 6. Mercury Delayed (to 2 October 1948) === === 7. The Greenwood Tree (to 7 February 1952) === === 8. On The Beach (to 7 June 1954) ===") Tag: Visual edit
09:01, 26 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Intriguing Words, Expressions, Phrases (Created page with "* Over-simplification - We must at all costs avoid over-simplification, which one might be tempted to call the occupational disease of philosophers if it were not their occupation.") Tag: Visual edit
08:47, 26 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page How to Do Things with Words (Created page with "=== Lecture I === === Lecture II === === Lecture III === === Lecture IV === === Lecture V === === Lecture VI === === Lecture VII === === Lecture VIII === === Lecture IX === === Lecture X === === Lecture XI === === Lecture XII ===") Tag: Visual edit
14:18, 19 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (Created page with "=== Preface === === Cybernetics and History === === Progress and Entropy === === Rigidity and Learning: Two Patterns of Communicative Behavior === === The Mechanism and History of Language === === Organization as the Message === === Law and Communication === === Communication, Secrecy, and Social Policy === === Role of the Intellectual and the Scientist === === The First and the Second Industrial Revolution === === Some Communication Machines and Their Future =...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
08:14, 12 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Mind is Flat (Created page with "== Prologue: Literary Depth, Mental Shallows == == Part One: The Illusion of Mental Depth == === 1. The Power of Invention === === 2. The Feeling of Reality === === 3. Anatomy of a Hoax === === 4. The Inconstant Imagination === === 5. Inventing Feelings === === 6. Manufacturing Choice === == Part Two: The Improvised Mind == === 7. The Cycle of Thought === === 8. The Narrow Channel of Consciousness === === 9. The Myth of Unconscious Thought === === 10. The Boundary of Con...")
17:17, 7 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page A Little History of Philosophy (Created page with "* Socrates/Plato (400 BC) - Uses clever counter-examples to show that his interlocutor's comments don't apply in every situation and demonstrate that they didn't really know what they thought they knew. ** The man who breaks free is like a philosopher. He sees beyond appearances. Ordinary people have little idea about reality because they are content with looking at what's in front of them rather than thinking deeply about it. But the appearances are deceptive. What they...") Tag: Visual edit
07:58, 6 July 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI (Created page with "== Seth Lloyd: Wrong But More Relevant Than Ever == == Judea Pearl: The Limitations of Opaque Learning Machines == == Stuart Russell: The Purpose Put into the Machine == == George Dyson: The Third Law == == Daniel Dennett: What Can We Do == == Rodney Brooks: The Inhuman Mess Our Machines Have Gotten Us Into == == Frank Welczek: The Unity of Intelligence == == Max Tegmark: Let's Aspire to More Than Making Ourselves Obsolete == == Jaan Tallinn: Dissident Messages == == Ste...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
10:47, 8 June 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Created page with "=== I: Snags and Snarls === === II: Sense and Society === === III: Sparking and Slipping === === IV: Structure and Strangeness === === V: Spirit and Substrate === === VI: Selection and Stability === === VII: Sanity and Survival ===") Tag: Visual edit
09:57, 31 May 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Calculus (Created page with "Differentiation and integration are the two fundamental, inverse operations in calculus, a branch of mathematics concerned with continuous change. They provide powerful tools for analyzing the behavior of functions and quantities that are constantly varying. ### Differentiation **Differentiation** is the process of finding the **derivative** of a function. The derivative measures the **instantaneous rate of change** of a function with respect to its independent variabl...")
09:57, 31 May 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity, and the Emergence of Life (Created page with "== Introduction: The Simplicity of Complexity == * Chaos and complexity are based on two simple ideas: ** The sensitivity of a system to its starting conditions ** Feedback == Order Out of Chaos == * The Greeks were superb geometers, who had a very good understanding of the relationships between stationary things, but they had no understanding of how things move or the laws of motion. * The three-body problem - Equations describing systems of three or more objects can be...")
16:11, 11 May 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Concept of Mind (Created page with "== Introduction == == Descartes's Myth == * The dogma of the ghost in the machine == Knowing How and Knowing That == * The distinction between being intelligent and possessing knowledge. * We think of intellectual powers as that special class of operations which constitute theorizing. The goal of these operations is the knowledge of true propositions or facts. Mathematics and the established natural sciences ar the model accomplishments of human intellects. * On the cont...")
13:46, 1 May 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction (Created page with "== A Recent Field == * Visualization Techniques: ** PET (Positron Emission Tomography) - 1980s ** fMRI (Functional Magnetic Brain Imaging) - 1990s - the ratio of oxygenated to de-oxygenated blood. * Help us learn about: ** Human capacities ** Human limitations ** Disorders of the nervous system == Perceiving == * Lateral Occipital (LO) complex - an area that is activated when people recognize objects. Critical for the ability to use the ahape and orientation of an object...")
17:08, 26 April 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Experience Machine (Created page with "== Unboxing the Experience Machine == * The number of neuronal connections carrying signals backward in this way is estimated to exceed the number carry signals forward by a very substantial margin. * The brain, at 2% of human body weight is estimated to account for around 20% of total bodily energy consumption. * The bulk of what the brain does is learn and maintain a kind of model of body and world - a model that can then be used, moment by moment, to try to predict th...")
16:09, 21 April 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Sidebar (Created page with " * navigation ** mainpage|mainpage-description ** recentchanges-url|recentchanges ** Books|Books ** Films|Films ** Project|Project ** helppage|help-mediawiki * SEARCH * TOOLBOX * LANGUAGES")
15:53, 21 April 2025 Rob talk contribs moved page Cells to The Song of the Cell
10:09, 13 April 2025 Rob talk contribs created page Das Ludwig Thoma Komplott (Created page with " Category:Books")
10:09, 13 April 2025 Rob talk contribs created page Atomic Habits (Created page with " Category:Consciousness Category:Books")
15:57, 12 April 2025 Rob talk contribs created page Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory (Created page with "== Where is My Mind? == * By one estimate, the average American is exposed to 34GB (or 11.8hr) of information a day * Hermann Ebbinghaus “On Memory: A contribution to Experimental Psychology (1885) - tried to memorize trigrams, established the idea of a forgetting curve over time. * In essence, neurons function like a democracy with alliances or “cell assemblies”. * Somewhere is the brain’s speech centers a large coalition of neurons cases votes for “bath”,...")
15:20, 12 April 2025 Rob talk contribs created page The Inugami Curse (Created page with "The first book in the series was interesting as a locked room mystery, but ultimately disappointing. This one, with masks and mistaken identities is fine enough, but the main trick was easy to see through (even if the ultimate use of it was not). The influence of John Dickson Carr is pretty heavy here.")
15:18, 12 April 2025 Rob talk contribs created page The Village of Eight Graves (Created page with "Hmm. I think I’m out. There is some decent plotting here, but the murderer seemed obvious to me from quite early on and the motive (and means) are not very credible. The limestone caves are an interesting decor, but not well exploited and the constant gothic drama gets tedious.")
16:23, 26 March 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Science: A History (Created page with "== Origins == * One potential date for the beginning of the revival of Western Europe is 1453: ** Publication of "On the Structure of the Human Body" by Andreas Vesalius and of "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies" by Copernicus", mark the start of the scientific revolution that would transform first Europe and then the world. ** The Turks captured Constantinople marking the end of the old Roman Empire, causing many Greek-speaking scholars fled westwards to Italy...")
12:01, 23 March 2025 Rob talk contribs created page Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World (Created page with "* For my purposes I include as Viennese in this book all those who were educated in the city and contributed to its intellectual achievements, even if they were not born there. * In 1867, the emperor proclaimed the December Constitution, which included a bill of rights guaranteeing equality before the law for all of the empire’s ethnicities, as well as freedomes of expression, religion and assembly. This was one of the most progressive documents of its time and is stil...")
10:01, 22 March 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Rise and Reign of the Mammals (Created page with "* 303-307m ya - The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse - The climate became drier, temperatures swung cold and hot, and the ice caps melted, eventually disappearing for good in the ensuing Permian Period. * 252-251m ya - The Permian-Triassic transition. 90% of species were wiped out. Mega volcanoes erupted for several hundred thousand years. Animals that survived became smaller (the Lilliput Effect). By growing fast and reproducing earlier, they have a better chance of su...")
16:48, 12 March 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Four Ways of Thinking (Created page with "== Introduction == * Science and mathematics are, in large part, about finding better ways of reasoning. This book describes four ways of getting nearer to the truth. * Stephen Wolfram hypothesized that every process, biological or physical, personal or social, natural or artificial, lies in one of only four classes of behavior: ** Stable systems - Are those that reach and stay at an equilibrium, like a ball rolling to rest. ** Periodic systems - Are those that exhibit r...")
08:13, 17 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Adaptionism (Created page with "Adaptationism refers to a perspective that emphasizes the role of natural selection in shaping the traits of organisms. It posits that many, if not most, features of living beings are the result of adaptive processes, where natural selection favors traits that enhance survival and reproduction. The evolution of the brain, in particular, is a complex process that likely involves a combination of adaptation, exaptation, and other evolutionary mechanisms. A balanced ap...")
07:21, 17 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Created page with "== Part I: Turning Our World Upside Down == === 1. Introduction === === 2. Before Bacteria and Bach === === 3. On the Origin of Reasons === === 4. The Strange Inversions of Meaning === === 5. The Evolution of Understanding === == Part II: From Evolution to Intelligent Design == === 6. What is Information? === === 7. Darwinian Space: An Interlude === === 8. Brains Made of Brains === === 9. The Role of Words in Cultural Evolution === === 10. The Meme's-Eye Point of View ==...")
07:12, 17 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs moved page Gödel, Escher Bach to Gödel, Escher, Bach
16:01, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies (content was: "* Reasoning involves an infinite regress. * Machines may someday have wills despite the fact that no magic program spontaneously appears in memory from out of nowhere. Instead it will be by reason of organization and structure on many levels of hardware and software; * When humans think, we certainly do change our own mental rules, and we change the rules that change the rules, and on and...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
16:00, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Artificial Intelligence: Prospects (content was: "* I believe that "almost" situations and unconsciously manufactured subjunctives represent some of the richest potential sources of insight into how human beings organize and categorize their perceptions of the world. * The "slippability" of a feature of some event or circumstance depends on a set of nested contexts in which the event or circumstance is perceived to occur. We build up ou...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
16:00, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects (content was: "* Tesler's theorem - "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." * Translation involves having a mental model of the world being discussed, and manipulating symbols in that model. A program which makes no use of a model of the world as it reads the passage will soon get hopelessly bogged down in ambiguities and multiple meanings. * Skillful game players choose their moves according to mental p...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
16:00, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others (content was: "* Every aspect of thinking can be viewed as a high-level description of a system which, on a low level, is governed by simple, even formal, rules. * The only way to understand such a comple system as a brain is by chunking it on higher and higher levels, and therby losing some precision at each step. What emerges at the top level is the « informal system » which obeys so many rules of...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
16:00, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Self-Ref and Self-Rep (content was: "* The word sequences are the tips of the icebergs and the processing which must be done to understand them is the hidden part. * Self-reproducing object = self-rep - we want to have the feeling that, to the max extend possible, it explicitly contains the directions for copying itself. There is an intuitive borderline on one side of which we perceive true self-directed self-rep, and on the...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
16:00, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Jumping out of the System (content was: "* Gw was not clever enough to foresee its own embeddability inside number theory. * Any system, no matter how complex or tricky it is, can be Gödel-numbered, and then the notion of its proof-pairs can be defined - and this is the petard by which it is hoise. Once a system is well-defined, or "boxed", it becomes vulnerable. * TNT is "essentially incomplete". The downfall occurs essentiall...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
16:00, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page On Formally Undecideable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems (content was: "* The arithmetical version of quining - arithmoquining - will allow us to make a TNT-sentence which is "about itself". ** a' is the Gödel number of the formula gotten by arithmoquining the formula with Gödel number a'' ** a' is the arithmoquinification of a'' * It's not enough to quine - you must quine a quine-mentioning sentence * We have gradually pulled a high-level interpretation -...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
15:59, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page BlooP and FlooP and GlooP (content was: "* Primitive recursivity and general recursivity * An orderly system of sufficient complexity that it can mirror itself cannot be totally orderly - it must contain some strange, chaotic features * Recursive function theory * Primitive recursive truths involve only predictably terminating calculations. These core truths serve for N as Euclid's first four postulates served for geometry; they...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
15:59, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Minds and Thoughts (content was: "* There can be no isomorphism between two brains on the neural or macroscopic suborgan level. * But on the symbol level, there could be functional isomorphisms between symbols and triggering patterns. * These would not be exact (even identical twins have different memories and thought symbols), but clearly some humans think more alike than others do. * What is a partial isomorphism or con...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
15:59, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Brains and Thoughts (content was: "* Thought must depend on representing reality in the hardware of the brain. * We must have active symbols, rather than passive typographic symbols. * Not all descriptions of a person need be attached to some central symbol for that person, which stores the person’s name. Descriptions can be manufactured and manipulated in themselves. We can invent nonexistent people by making descriptio...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
15:59, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Levels of Description, and Computer Systems (content was: "* We go to the doctor, who looks at us on lower levels than we think of ourselves. e read about DNA and « genetic engineering » and sip our coffee. * Flickering dots and the moview we’re watching - we have these two wildly different representations of what is on the screen, but that does not confuse us. We can just shut one out, and pay attention to the other - which is what all of...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
15:59, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Mumon and Gödel (content was: "* One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over. But Zen koans are a central part of Zen study, verbal though they are. Koans are supposed to be triggers which thought they do not contain enough information in themselves to impart enlightenment, may possible be...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))
15:59, 16 February 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs deleted page Typographical Number Theory (content was: "* Three examples of indirect self-reference are included in the preceding dialog. To see them, you have to look at the form, as well as the content. * Open formulas with free variables, which express a property and quantified variables which express a truth or falsity. * A formula with at least on free variable, an open formula is called a predicate. * Assertion of existence and universa...", and the only contributor was "Rob" (talk))