Category Archives: Learning

Theme One Program • Motivation 2

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

A side‑effect of working on the Theme One program over the course of a decade was the measure of insight it gave me into the reasons why empiricists and rationalists have so much trouble understanding each other, even when those … Continue reading →

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Theme One Program • Motivation 1

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Jon Awbrey

The main idea behind the Theme One program is the efficient use of graph-theoretic data structures for the tasks of “learning” and “reasoning”. I am thinking of learning in the sense of learning about an environment, in essence, gaining information about … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Requisite Variety • Selection 13

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Our venture into cybernetics, the study of systems whose time evolution signifies an object, brings us to the point of seeing how pragmatic, semiotic, and systems thinking all have triadic relations at their core. Recall the game between and determined by … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Requisite Variety • Selection 12

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Jon Awbrey

Ashby now invites us to consider a series of games, beginning as follows. Requisite Variety 11/3.   Play and outcome.  Let us therefore forget all about regulation and simply suppose that we are watching two players, and who are engaged … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Requisite Variety • Selection 11

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Ashby now takes a few steps back from the picture of regulation in biological systems, setting out the framework he needs for a broader perspective on regulation in general. Requisite Variety 11/1.   In the previous chapter we considered regulation … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 10

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Regulation In Biological Systems Survival 10/7.[concl.]   When considering this second form [of defence] we should be careful to notice the part played by information and variety in the process.  The fencer must watch his opponent closely, and he must gain … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 9

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Studies of intelligent systems, natural or artificial, tend to focus on dynamic models or symbolic models, rarely both, finding it difficult to integrate the two.  But here we are asking the synthetic question — How does a cybernetic system come … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Discussion 4

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science (1) (2) • Jack Ring JR: I share your appreciation of Ashby’s work.  However it seems to reflect the deductive approach typical of males as contrasted to the inductive approach typical of females.  Make sense? A tutorial … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Discussion 3

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Cybernetics • Faisal L. Kadri Maybe it will help to say a few things about the way forward … I’ll be getting back to Ashby’s text directly — it’s still the best guide I’ve found to the rudiments of … Continue reading →

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Cybernetics • Regulation In Biological Systems • Selection 8

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

We want to understand how a species of organisms might evolve:  (1) organic means of storing formal structures capable of bearing information about an organism’s state in the world, and (2) faculties for developing artificial extensions of those means.  Keeping that goal … Continue reading →

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