robwwilliams 5 hours ago

Yes! What fun to read and I think you are pointing in a smarter direction.

Memory as recursion and the key to step toward AGI.

The trick is recursive self-control of attention while being battered by 1001 input streams. Perhaps better to think about “input” as interrupt requests that a “self” must evaluate and usually ignore to stay on tasks: Making all of those sandwiches!

Bodies may be essential soon along with all of the hard knocks of selection as motivation to memorize, learn, adapt.

Here is a great book that Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores read very carefully:

“Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living” by Maturana and Valera (1980).

This intense book is an axiomatic approach to life and cognition. Enactivist philosophers are now extending their original insights:

1: Terrence W. Deacon: Incomplete Nature

2. Evan Thompson: Mind in Life

3. Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment

4: Alva Noë: Out of Our Heads

5: Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores: Understanding Computers and Cognition

6: Douglas Hofstadter: I Am a Strange Loop

Pretty sure that Demis Hassabis, Rich Sutton, and Karl J. Friston. Like Maturana and Valera, all three of them have strong backgrounds in neuroscience.

  • inciampati 2 hours ago

    Wonderful! Thanks, I'll definitely read the Maturana and Valera work, would be good to work through this line of thinking.