Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Launch fever?

Does NASA have launch fever? It seems to have skipped over some issues in its run-up to launching Artemis. Will this cause failure? 

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Understanding

 1.) to perceive the meaning of words.

As perhaps the simplest example A.s.a. hears/receives the word "stop" and halts its motion.*

2.) interpret in a particular way (perhaps resolving ambiguity).

As a simple example hearing the word "stop" when in the act of lifting or moving A.s.a. knows to halt that particular action.

3.) infer something from information received.

With wheels turning and no motion of the robot body observed A.s.a. concludes it is stuck.

4.) an observation is classified as an example of a general pattern.

A.s.a. displays more complex examples of each of these.

* see, for example, Experiments with A.s.a. H., in my book Twelve Papers, available on my website Robert-W-Jones.com under "Book."

Monday, August 1, 2022

Knowledge decomposition

There are common/recurring patterns on various spatial and temporal scales and to different degrees of abstraction. The A.s.a. H. hierarchy* decomposes behaviors/knowledge into various networks/sets of these.

* and other deep learning systems   

Causality

 Some categories defined at one level of abstraction may be causally related. Some categories defined on a higher level of abstraction may not be. The wave function may evolve causally but  the relationship between capital and labor may not be totally causal. etc.