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20 Jun Allusion of Clarity

Abstract Dialog

Speaking to an associate at work I told him that a certain tool allows us to perform a complex technical change “with impunity”. My intent was to point out that without the tool, the change would create major ripple effects, breaking large amounts of code that would need to be fixed. He said that he would restate […]

19 Jun Did You Change Your Mind?

Brain Activity with Noise

Change is a Constant There is a beautiful song from the by the Rascals that asks: “In a world that’s constantly changing, how can I be sure?” When confronted with the dirty little uncertainties that swirl around everyday life and interpersonal relations, anyone’s mind may experience turmoil. How do we resolve it? What mental processes keep us from […]

19 Jun [Panksepp 1998]

13 Jun The Mind and its Brain

Eye Perception

Mind-Brain Dualism While brains can be weighed, minds are weightless. Despite some differences of opinion about what all to put on the scale, we can get usable numbers about brain weight and changes in brain weight due to certain phenomena such as changes in age. Of course, the mind and brain may be one and the same – there […]

11 Jun Dawn of The Age of Knowledge

Age of Knowledge

Sunset in The Information Age We stand in the waning days of the Information Age. Certainly the information already available to the searching mind through printed, recorded, and encoded electronic media spans the universe of fact and imagination. I have been told that we are now entering the Age of Context. This is exciting to […]

09 Jun What’s the Point (of this blog)?

Digital Brain

Knowledge Glut? Too many of us are stuck on the on-ramp of the information superhighway, waiting to get on.  The highway seems to be moving from my vantage point, but there is this guy stopped at the top of the ramp. Sometimes you just have to get out and walk. By the way, this photo shows […]

09 Jun The End of Code

Joe's Ontology

09 Jun AI Apps and Processes

Apps Section Logo

09 Jun Natural Language and Dialog

Speak 2 U 3

09 Jun Fuzzy Logic and the Mind-Brain Dichotomy

Fuzzy Guy