Pattern Recognition
Human behaviors have patterns.
The atoms and molecules also behave in patterns.
Sometimes the pattern makes me believe that God exists. Other times I have to admit that I am like my computer, because I will never know who coded me, for if I do, I will no longer be the same again -- I will know how it all came about, and then I am no longer my kind (e.g. the computer will no longer be a computer if it recognizes just how complicated a human being is and which one of us is typing into itself).
So is there a way for a computer program to become intelligent enough to edit its own code? Only if the programmer anticipates a conditional instance that lead the program to follow another set of directions that direct the recursive editing of the code itself.
Computers do not recognize patterns. To recognize patterns is to do a multi-level decision process that is impossible to code in a binary linear model. To associate a pattern to a set of sensory inputs or dataset, the binary model cannot be linear, the model should be in layers or sheets of 1s and 0s (not lines of ones and zeros). To accomplish that, there needs to be a parallel system.
Notice what have changed and what have stayed the same. Then just follow the pattern to see where you'll end up.
That's how life dances. All of us flow with the pattern in one way or another. There is beauty in space-time in that time changes everything and space separates us from certain conditional instances. That makes life navigating easier.
I watched a couple of TED Talks today:
TEDTalks : A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren - Dan Dennett (2006) (video)
TEDTalks : An atheist's call to arms - Richard Dawkins (2002) (video)
We all write for one reason or another. I wonder why people write. What drives Richard Dawkins to write with such passion to prove no god influence humans and to urge humans to take freedom to engage in a new worldview on why we exist and what we can do? What drove Edith Wharton when she wrote about cousins who have twisted love lives? What motivates Dan Dennett to dream up downloading his mind onto computers and the material structure for the seat of the soul? Why this brain for this goal?
Spend time wisely. Sail through the warped sea of our sheet of time with great big dreams. Question whether these dreams are your own or whether you were given these dreams, and then accept them if the dreams fit. Have a goal oriented week!
The atoms and molecules also behave in patterns.
Sometimes the pattern makes me believe that God exists. Other times I have to admit that I am like my computer, because I will never know who coded me, for if I do, I will no longer be the same again -- I will know how it all came about, and then I am no longer my kind (e.g. the computer will no longer be a computer if it recognizes just how complicated a human being is and which one of us is typing into itself).
So is there a way for a computer program to become intelligent enough to edit its own code? Only if the programmer anticipates a conditional instance that lead the program to follow another set of directions that direct the recursive editing of the code itself.
Computers do not recognize patterns. To recognize patterns is to do a multi-level decision process that is impossible to code in a binary linear model. To associate a pattern to a set of sensory inputs or dataset, the binary model cannot be linear, the model should be in layers or sheets of 1s and 0s (not lines of ones and zeros). To accomplish that, there needs to be a parallel system.
Notice what have changed and what have stayed the same. Then just follow the pattern to see where you'll end up.
That's how life dances. All of us flow with the pattern in one way or another. There is beauty in space-time in that time changes everything and space separates us from certain conditional instances. That makes life navigating easier.
I watched a couple of TED Talks today:
TEDTalks : A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren - Dan Dennett (2006) (video)
TEDTalks : An atheist's call to arms - Richard Dawkins (2002) (video)
We all write for one reason or another. I wonder why people write. What drives Richard Dawkins to write with such passion to prove no god influence humans and to urge humans to take freedom to engage in a new worldview on why we exist and what we can do? What drove Edith Wharton when she wrote about cousins who have twisted love lives? What motivates Dan Dennett to dream up downloading his mind onto computers and the material structure for the seat of the soul? Why this brain for this goal?
Spend time wisely. Sail through the warped sea of our sheet of time with great big dreams. Question whether these dreams are your own or whether you were given these dreams, and then accept them if the dreams fit. Have a goal oriented week!
posted by Calpinkie at 8:16 PM
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