Epstein Secrets

epresentations of procedures is an artifact of CogPrime's particular software design (and ultimately, a reflection of certain properties of the von Neumann computing architecture). But it also represents a more fundamental dichotomy, between: • Procedures represented in a way that allows them to be dyn

elligence, and seems to be one of two critical factors separating humans from other intelligent animals - the other being the ability to use tools. Steven Mithen IMit9(1 argues that the key factor in the emergence of the modern human mind from its predecessors was the coming-together of formerly largely disti

r machine, now known as a Universal Turing Machine, an arbitrary set of computing instructions could be encoded on that same tape. In the 1940s, von Neumann developed an abstract self-reproducing machine called a cellular automaton. In this case it occupied a finite subset of an infinite two- dimensional

ipulate at will to imagine alternative hypothetical environments for planning and learning. Historians of Homo sapiens such as Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Mithen are in general agreement that the decisive ingredient that gave our ancestors the ability to achieve global dominion about forty thousand years ago w

r machine, now known as a Universal Turing Machine, an arbitrary set of computing instructions could be encoded on that same tape. In the 1940s, von Neumann developed an abstract self-reproducing machine called a cellular automaton. In this case it occupied a finite subset of an infinite two- dimensional

ipulate at will to imagine alternative hypothetical environments for planning and learning. Historians of Homo sapiens such as Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Mithen are in general agreement that the decisive ingredient that gave our ancestors the ability to achieve global dominion about forty thousand years ago w