Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Alternate realities

Some alternate realities are:

Materialism:  The entities described by physics are all that there is.

Idealism: Mind is all that there is.

Dualism: Materialism and spirit interacting with one another.

Theism: One (or more) supreme being and its creations.

Multiverse: Everett quantum mechanics, inflationary bubbles, fecund universe, etc.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of people have adopted each of these weltanschauung. The fragmentation of human society is quite natural, we experience some very different realities.


Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Differing concepts and meaning

The concepts A.s.a. H. learns* are defined** by their place in the hierarchically structured memory/case-base and the neighboring concepts they are linked with. This will vary a bit from one intelligent agent to another and one training history to another. I think this is also true among humans. This is one reason I don't find the definition of words to be as important as some philosophers do.

* and words which name them (see my blog of 5 November 2015)

** and meaning is established 

Specialist hardware agents

Most of the experiments that my A.s.a. H. robots have been tasked with* can be accomplished using a small set (society) of specialist agents**:

transporter, arm, various grippers, walker, flyer, swimmer, and brain

each with appropriate onboard sensors. 

* See, for example, my blog of 5 November 2015.

** See, also, my blogs of 1 and 16 February 2020.