Yeah i had a great idea a few years back (10 years now that i think about it), and i posted some details about it on rec.org.mensa and comp.ai or something, and its been deleted. theres a huge chain of about 80 replies all arguing over 1 sentence from the 6 paragraph posting, but none of the rest of the posting can be found. I'd be interested if anyone can dig it up. It was basically about how my design of a computer system could explain most things that show how we think - including animals, religion, magic, etc - I don't know how much detail I gave out about it. I've never built it - people laugh at me when I tell them about it, including my lecturers at uni etc, but it was basically about getting the machine to learn on its own terms in terms of its own inputs - observing cause/effects and learning to interact with the environment. It scaled up to quite a lot of things, but it took a massive amount of thinking, and when i finally worked it out i lost interest and never seem to have time to do it properly.
http://groups.google.co.nz/group/rec.org.mensa/ind ex/browse_frm/thread/c15cffb6d00e5e76/4059d9828125 2c22?hl=en&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.org.mensa%2Fbrowse _frm%2Fthread%2Fc15cffb6d00e5e76%2F4059d98281252c2 2%3Ftvc%3D1%26q%3D%22we+are+animals%22+ldcr%26hl%3 Den%26&tvc=1&q=%22we+are+animals%22+ldcr&hl=en#
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Yeah i had a great idea a few years back (10 years now that i think about it), and i posted some details about it on rec.org.mensa and comp.ai or something, and its been deleted. theres a huge chain of about 80 replies all arguing over 1 sentence from the 6 paragraph posting, but none of the rest of the posting can be found. I'd be interested if anyone can dig it up. It was basically about how my design of a computer system could explain most things that show how we think - including animals, religion, magic, etc - I don't know how much detail I gave out about it. I've never built it - people laugh at me when I tell them about it, including my lecturers at uni etc, but it was basically about getting the machine to learn on its own terms in terms of its own inputs - observing cause/effects and learning to interact with the environment. It scaled up to quite a lot of things, but it took a massive amount of thinking, and when i finally worked it out i lost interest and never seem to have time to do it properly. http://groups.google.co.nz/group/rec.org.mensa/ind ex/browse_frm/thread/c15cffb6d00e5e76/4059d9828125 2c22?hl=en&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.org.mensa%2Fbrowse _frm%2Fthread%2Fc15cffb6d00e5e76%2F4059d98281252c2 2%3Ftvc%3D1%26q%3D%22we+are+animals%22+ldcr%26hl%3 Den%26&tvc=1&q=%22we+are+animals%22+ldcr&hl=en#