Category Archives: Cognition

Re: Mind Organization Insight

By Raelifin | Published: March 10, 2011

This is a response-post to Mind Organization Insight on Iteration. David writes about the mental mechanism commonly called “attention” or ” focus” or “thinking about”. This is a subject I care a lot about, as it seems to be the keystone of human intelligence. This post is very much a direct response to the other, [...]

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Simple Rationality

By Raelifin | Published: March 3, 2011

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to post this. Several weeks ago I was playing a turn-based fighting game that I love, and I got to thinking “what would an AI that plays this game well look like?” And as I thought about it, it became clear to me that the challenge [...]

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Morning Scribbles

By Raelifin | Published: February 2, 2011

I woke up at 5:30 this morning, and as I lay in bed, I was struck by some inspiration which caused me to run out into the living room in my underwear and start jotting down cognitive science notes on my whiteboards. Yeah, apparently I do that. Now, just because I was inspired doesn’t mean [...]

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