ᛕᎥᕼᗷᗴᖇᑎᗴ丅Ꭵᑕᔕ @Kihbernetics@qoto.org

>"If time didn’t have a direction, it seems to me that would make time into just another spatial dimension, and if all we’ve got are spatial dimensions, then it seems to me nothing’s happening in the universe."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-defense-of-the-reality-of-time

The use of the terms #transformer and #transducer seems somehow different in #AI than in other #engineering disciplines.

In engineering a "transformation" means altering the #form of the same #substance and "transduction" is used when the form is "produced" in another (different) substance.

For example, a #transformer will change (reduce or increase) the voltage "pressure" of an AC current source while a #transducer such as a microphone will change an **acoustic** pressure (wave) to an **electric** signal.

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/an-overview-of-transducer-models-for-asr/

#Hallucination is defined as "an #experience involving the apparent #perception of something not present". Consequently, it requires a #sensory apparatus.

Because an #LLM does not have the ability to experience its surroundings except through user-provided prompts, an erroneous statement generated by the model should be called a (computational) #mistake, not a hallucination.

It cannot be a #lie because there is no #intention involved in the generation of the statement.

>All received cellular information must be analyzed to be deployed as cellular problem-solving to maintain homeorhetic equipoise. However, the effective implementation of information is definitively a function of orderly information management. Consequently, effective cellular problem-solving is information processing and management.

Cellular information is not *received* and *processed* or *implemented*, it is *created* and *used* by the cell to regulate its internal autopoietic (growth) processes. Cells don't *solve problems* and I don't know what the *function of orderly information management* stands for.

I had to look for the meaning of *homeorhetic equipoise* and it turns out that *homeorhesis* stands for *steady flow* and *equipoise* stands for *balance*. So why just not use those words?

Revised central dogma? This sounds more like a bunch of BS written by a chatGPT.

https://comdig.unam.mx/2023/06/06/a-revised-central-dogma-for-the-21st-centuryall-biology-is-cognitive-information-processing/

>The Cambridge Dictionary reports that #charisma is “a special power that some people have naturally,” but this association with individual influence is criticized as just another tedious expression of the **Great Man Theory** and overlooks much interconnected complexity. In her book, “Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leaders,” Erica Edwards argued that this view has “privileged charismatic leaders, from Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King Jr., over the arduous, undocumented efforts of ordinary women, men and children to remake their social reality.” This uncritical faith in charisma as a motor of history, she wrote, “ignores its limits as a model for social movements while showing us just how powerful a narrative force it is.”

https://www.noemamag.com/the-secret-history-and-strange-future-of-charisma/

#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning *chosen of the people*) claimed that everything starts from *atoms*, in a *bottom-up* #causation.

#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') can be described as #emergent *top-down* #control mechanisms based on the free association and decision of autonomous individuals.

All #causation is *bottom-up* or from the *inside-out*. There is no such thing as *top-down causation* imposed from the outside. There is only an emergent (internal) level of constraints and other control mechanisms generated by the interaction of individuals fulfilling a common need or objective.

>"If we teach only the findings and products of #science ... without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from #pseudoscience? Both then are presented as unsupported assertion."

>"Science is far from a perfect instrument of #knowledge. It’s just the best we have. In this respect, it’s like #democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human #action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible #consequences of #alternative courses of action."

>"Every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition."

From #Carl_Sagan's *Baloney Detection Kit - Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking*

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/

>#Life must have emerged from the physical world. This emergence must be understood if our knowledge is not to degenerate (more than it has already) into a collection of disjoint specialized disciplines.

>... #physics and #biology require different levels of #models ... physical theory is described by rate-dependent dynamical #laws that have no #memory, while #evolution depends, at least to some degree, on #control of dynamics by rate-independent memory #structures."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12009802_The_physics_of_symbols_Bridging_the_epistemic_cut

>"Real #creativity comes from the #unconscious. You can make tiny improvements using the logical part of your mind ... anything that's really new it's going to come up from the unconscious, and that can only happen if you're in a state of #play."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQ9_stT2Kc

Politics is easy. Just feed them and let them think they are in charge 😂

>When compared to the pugilistic congressional tech hearings from Facebook to TikTok in the past, Tuesday’s rendition was surprisingly cordial—likely buoyed by the fact that Altman shared a dinner with around 60 lawmakers the evening before, where he reportedly gave them a demonstration of ChatGPT’s capabilities.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-congress-fell-for-openai-and-sam-altmans-ai-magic-tricks

I want to share this jewel that I found while looking for texts about #HV_Foerster's *non-trivial machine*.

It reminded me of how I always felt that the multidisciplinary game weaving together structures from different sciences with music in #H_Hesse's book *The Glass Bead Game* (*Das Glasperlenspiel*) published in 1943 (1949 in English) describes #Cybernetics, the very thing #N_Wiener was working on at the same time.

https://www.academia.edu/67973857/Creating_von_Foersters_non_Trivial_Machine_in_Digital_audio

Shall I be reading "scientific papers" or articles with a title that ends with a question mark❓
**NO**‼️

>Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

>A #sign is something, A, which brings something, B, its #interpretant sign determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence with something, C, its #object, as that in which itself stands to C.

#CS_Peirce (1902)

In #Kihbernetics a sign is the #model describing (documenting) a #system ("mental model") abstracted from a real #phenomenon (object) by an #observer (the interpretant).

>#Cybernetics stands to the real machine - electronic, mechanical, neural, or economic - much as geometry stands to a real object
in our terrestrial space.

>It takes as its subject matter the domain of *all possible machines*,
and is only secondarily interested if informed that some of them have not yet been made, either by Man or by Nature.

#WR_Ashby (1956) - *An Introduction to Cybernetics*

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

The self-#constructor:

#HH_Pattee
"Evolving Self-reference: Mater, Symbols, and Semantic Closure"
https://www.academia.edu/2947945/Evolving_Self_reference_Matter_Symbols_and_Semantic_Closure

#DNA is not a #blueprint describing the #structure or the #function of an #organism.
It is rather a #recipe (an algorithm) that describes (#control) the #process of #construction, i.e. specifies what #action the #constructor has to perform at any moment depending on the constructor's own #state and that of its #environment.

The #function of the #organism is defined by its #structure as constructed by following the #DNA algorithm. Besides the functions involved in this process of self-construction and maintenance, a mature organism is also involved in the #production of #artifacts (messages, seeds) for dissemination (#communication) in the environment.

Reading Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" to see what's all the fuss about and I think he's got the basics wrong.
For starters, his "cellular automata" do not produce #behavior but #structure, and all of the #complexity originates from the fact that every new row has two more pixels.

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p27--how-do-simple-programs-behave/

Conway's "Game of Life" cellular automata can be said to produce #behavior as they maintain their initial dynamic #structure while moving through the "dead environment" of empty cells and will change their behavior when interacting with the static or dynamic structures of other "live" automatons.

https://playgameoflife.com/

Beware big (and small) consultancies that promise *quick* **and** *lasting* change. The only legitimate reason to hire a consultant is to bring your organization into a position where you don't need them anymore.

And don't forget that it is you that will have to do all the hard work during the transformation and live with the results.

A book everyone who thinks of hiring a consultant should read first:

https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-big-con