By adam | Published:
September 18, 2008
Some idle diagramming today, while thinking about how thoughts and proto-thoughts can split or twin, creating rich nets and interpenetrable feedback loops. This probably has something to do with emergence:
There are a lot of annotations on the image at Flickr, in case you’re curious about feedback loops in the mind, semantic equations, or the last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I watched. (Look for one of Willow’s first magic sigils!)
“A Collection of Commands” is a little post-it thought I had earlier in the day, and this page seemed a nice play to put it…. How is thought like/unlike a collection of commands?
By adam | Published:
July 14, 2008
Just started trying out Evernote, a note-taking/keeping app. Not really sure if I need another one of those, but it works nicely on my iPhone, so we’ll see.
At any rate, my first “note” was of a little diagram post-it I had on my desk at work:
My handwriting (as normal) is atrocious, but lends itself to some swell misreading-based statements:
- The user is surrounded by causes. & organizations.
- Local causes, probable causes.
- Actions also appear.
- And other causalities.
- Local production with general action.
- The user has a name (probably) and takes some actions.
- These actions may appear here or appear “out of the frame”
- Things are things in a series.
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By adam | Published:
July 5, 2008
Draft sketch of the process by which thought elements interact in thought spaces, which are in turn converted into thought objects by the interface and potential interfaces that surround them.
By adam | Published:
June 30, 2008
Intro slide to Lecture 2 - What We Think When We Think About Thought
As far as I can tell, here’s what’s happening:
- A primary user (left) access a thought-object (center) that is connected to a portable medium (top).
- Collective knowledge of the thought-object, combined with perceptions of the primary user’s use of it, flows back and forth between observers (bottom) and the thought-object. This changes it.
- The thought-object, combining the inputs and manipulations of the primary user, portable medium, and observers, projects an image onto a screen (right) …
- The primary user and observers now have access to a representation of the thought-object.
- They can now discuss it as a tangible entity, and change its properties by manipulating the representation or by adjusting variables in the thought-object itself.
Note: this is probably very similar to the process of making a thought “happen” in your own mind.
More slides from Lecture 2
Video of Lecture 2
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