In his new book* Michael Wolf asks: "If natural languages deeply influence the forms that our thinking takes, could they be so different that we 'live' in substantially 'different worlds'?" My blog of 15 June 2022 lists some of the alternate realities that exist. But I don't think that language is as important a factor in this as Wolf does.
* Michael Wolf, Philosophy of Languages, Routledge, 2023, page 28
Frank Jackson asks what would happen if someone lived their entire life in a black and white environment and then was suddenly presented with colors.* I have performed just such an experiment with an A.s.a. H. robot. In the black and white world the visual input is a grayscale SCALAR quantity. With the advent of a colored environment this transitions to a VECTOR quantity. In the case of humans it would be a four dimensional vector quantity; one component each for rods, "red" cones, "green" cones, and "blue" cones. (Other animals and robots may have something other than a four dimensional vector input.)
* Epiphenomenal Qualia, The Philosophical Quarterly, 32 (127), 1982, pg 127.
There is, of course, a need for commercial launch vehicles for things like communication satellites, weather satellites, remote sensing satellites, navigation satellites, space telescopes, military satellites, scientific research, etc. But is there a need for commercial manned space stations? More than just a man tended station?
There has been growing frustration with starship-superheavy not having had an orbital launch attempt yet. But a big enough failure (perhaps with loss of life) could end the project entirely.
I also worry that starship makes an ungainly lunar lander.
I was able to run a single layer* of a light version of A.s.a. H.* on an Arduino mega.
* Very similar to the code in my 14 May 2012 blog.
Since "needs" and (therefore) "value" is a vector quantity* I have suggested that a vector currency would be a more accurate measure of value than present day (scalar) money is. Something similar was in use during the 1940s where various different coupons were used to buy meat, eggs, fats, cheese, bacon, sugar, milk, tea, coffee, gasoline, fuel oil, tires, bicycles, typewriters, and various items of clothing.
* See my paper Capitalism is Wrong. (One version of which is in my book, Twelve Papers, on my website: www.robert-w-jones.com)
In 1986 Griffiths and Palissier published their brief book Algorithmic Methods for Artificial Intelligence. In my 2011 paper* I decomposed thought (and, specifically, A.s.a. H.) into remembering, generalization, comparison, explanation, deduction, organization, induction, classification, concept formation, image manipulation, feature detection, analogy, compression, simulation, and value assessment. In order to implement these processes on a computer each of them was, in turn, decomposed into: sorting, searching, vector averaging, vector differencing, vector dot product, sensitivity analysis, renormalization, interpolation, extrapolation, concatenation, time warping, and image manipulations.** Mid 2023 Stefan Edelkamp is expected to release his book: Algorithmic Intelligence: Towards an Algorithmic Foundation for Artificial Intelligence. I am anxious to see what he has to say. A google search has a number of sites listing typical AI algorithms as being: classifiers, clustering, and regression/forecasting. Some also add deduction, dimension reduction, and neural networks to the list.
* Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 114, no. 1-2, pg 162, 2011.
** There's no claim that these decompositions are unique.
In basic theories of dynamic memory* individual memories are constantly changing as a result of processing new experiences. One example of this is found in my A.s.a. H.**
If one wanted a memory theory of personal identity ("self") it would then have to be one built out of causal sequences developing through time.
* See for example R. C. Schank, Dynamic Memory, Cambridge University Press, 1982.
** See for example equation 1 of R. Jones, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 109, pg 159, 2006.
Despite reviews and sample pages at least one third of the books I buy from online bookstores turn out to be something I'm not really interested in. I prefer brick and mortar bookstores where I can better see what I'm getting.
The fact that I was able to pare down my library by about 1/3 when I moved out of my ESU office is undoubtedly related to this.
