Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
message From: Russ Abbott Date: 7/27/24 12:36 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my! From a consciousness perspective, what (so-far) cannot be encoded digitally by a robot are qualia. A ro

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Marcus Daniels
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 3:35 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my! >From a consciousness perspective, what (so-far) cannot be encoded digitally by >a robot are qualia. A robot can encode light frequ

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Santafe
M Marcus Daniels wrote: > Which of this cannot be encoded digitally by a robot? > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 12:12 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI,

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Russ Abbott
igitally by a robot? > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 12:12 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my! > > I agree with one small caveat. Artifacts; tangible,

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Gary Schiltz
There were certainly indigenous peoples who were quite civilized, with defended borders, and even functioning inter-tribal treaties, and to my understanding, survived long periods of time with no written language. It does, however, seem to me that they couldn't have developed complex mathematical o

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Marcus Daniels
> From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> > > On Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 12:12 PM > To: friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my! > > I agree with one small

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Prof David West
n Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 12:12 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my! > > I agree with one small caveat. Artifacts; tangible, written, > stigmergic, ... are but a small part of what is "cooper

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Marcus Daniels
Which of this cannot be encoded digitally by a robot? -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Friday, July 26, 2024 12:12 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my! I agree with one small caveat. Artifacts; tangible

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Prof David West
I agree with one small caveat. Artifacts; tangible, written, stigmergic, ... are but a small part of what is "cooperatively constructed and kneaded." The vast majority of what an individual "knows" and the vast majority of what the 'collective' "knows" is tacit, 'in-the-mind' and transmitted ora

Re: [FRIAM] Writing and Civilization and AI, oh my!

2024-07-26 Thread Marcus Daniels
< Particularly galling to me is the deprecation and dismissal of any human knowledge, wisdom, experience ... that cannot be reduced to mere words and abstract symbols. The epitome of this is the conceit that AI—which is nothing more than the algorithmic manipulation of abstract meaningless token