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10:2110:21, 5 October 2025 The Society of Mind (hist | edit) [16,538 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

09:0209:02, 21 September 2025 Real Numbers (hist | edit) [2,057 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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")
08:4508:45, 21 September 2025 Maths (hist | edit) [316 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

11:4211:42, 14 September 2025 Le Bilan de L'intelligence (hist | edit) [4,380 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

10:3810:38, 13 September 2025 Gravity's Rainbow (hist | edit) [53,229 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

17:2117:21, 8 September 2025 Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (hist | edit) [9,095 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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...")

10:5010:50, 28 August 2025 Reading for the Plot (hist | edit) [65,478 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

08:1708:17, 7 August 2025 Steps to an Ecology of Mind (hist | edit) [76,856 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

14:1714:17, 26 July 2025 Alan Turing: The Enigma (hist | edit) [17,175 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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
09:0109:01, 26 July 2025 Intriguing Words, Expressions, Phrases (hist | edit) [3,424 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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
08:4708:47, 26 July 2025 How to Do Things with Words (hist | edit) [3,555 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

14:1814:18, 19 July 2025 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (hist | edit) [30,176 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

08:1408:14, 12 July 2025 The Mind is Flat (hist | edit) [50,961 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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...")

17:1717:17, 7 July 2025 A Little History of Philosophy (hist | edit) [7,929 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

07:5807:58, 6 July 2025 Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI (hist | edit) [48,373 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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

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