Deeply insightful, original work on hybridizing analog with digital systems that can adaptively attune to boundlessly more complex signals, as a model for more-than-individual, material attunement and orientation, and coordination. (hybrid in Simondonian sense…. A mature paper is in press at Angelaki…
Synthetic cognition: a hybrid
Joshua Bacigalupi
2020
A hybrid system is proposed leveraging the diverse strengths of designed digital and evolved cognitive systems. This project will create a buildable and testable system capable of doing increasing amounts of useful work within the system's dynamic and complex environment. Please visit IforAM.org(tm) for more information about Synthetic Cognition.
Clarification: There are many kinds of machines. There are functional machines that have fixed relationships between all their parts. These machines include most all human fabricated machines to date including the subset of digital machines, which are Turing equivalent.
This project in synthetic cognition proposes a novel type of machine, which is not limited to fixed internal relations among parts. I call this new type "Superimposed Computation". This new type is discussed further in this short video:
http://tinyurl.com/cjaugjx
More summary videos about this project can be found here:
http://iforam.org/media
More specifically, here's a link to a summary of a talk focusing on the theory given at the cybernetics symposium at Asilomar last year:
http://bit.ly/19cpRv4.
Paper published as of 12/13 on the theory portion of this talk:
http://bit.ly/1huybdmContact me if interested in reading paper.
A full research proposal is here:
http://iforam.org/media/publications
And, a summary of the proposal is here:
http://tinyurl.com/7ccj9rk