I have come up with another approach to simulating learning. This one seems more interesting than the previous one and is, I hope, no more difficult to program. Click on the link below to read about this plan to create a program that “learns” in a somewhat “bottom up” way.
harry.baya.net/emergence/ant_path_1.htm
Here is my first draft of [...]

In the previous Blog entry (”New” Consciousnesses) I wrote some thoughts engendered by reading the book “Emergence”. I put in a link to an exerpt from the book. That excerpt has given me an idea for a program that I think catches some of the “bottom up” intelligence discussed in the book.
I have put my [...]

I have re-started reading “Emergence”, a book by Steven Johnson, about “bottom up” intelligence - one example being an ant colony. The full title of the book is “Emergence - The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.
Click here for an excerpt from this book.
This triggered a thought today that perhaps “death” may be [...]