Category Archives: Learning Theory

Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy • 2

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Jon Awbrey

Re: John Baez • Entropy and Information in Biological Systems To develop the concept of evolutionary games as “learning” processes in which information is gained over time. A fund of ideas toward that end can be found in the work … Continue reading →

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Objects, Models, Theories • 4

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

I need to stay with this problem a while … What are objects, models, theories, and how do they relate to one another? In contemplating this problem I always find it helpful to ruminate on the diagram shown above — … Continue reading →

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Objects, Models, Theories • 3

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Objects, Models, Theories • (1) • (2) Re: Peirce List • Tom Gollier Here my task is to build bridges between several different classical and contemporary uses of the word model, so I don’t have the luxury of complete … Continue reading →

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Objects, Models, Theories • 2

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: K.W. Regan • The Graph Of Math Re: Artem Kaznatcheev • Three Types Of Mathematical Models What — if anything — is the common sense that connects the different senses of the word model, as it has been used … Continue reading →

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Objects, Models, Theories • 1

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Happy Birthday, Charles Sanders Peirce❢ — September 10, 1839 Re: Artem Kaznatcheev • Three Types of Mathematical Models Comment 1 In speaking of models one tends to find denizens of different disciplines talking at cross purposes to one another.  Logicians … Continue reading →

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Where Is Fancy Bred?

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Artem Kaznatcheev • Fitness Landscapes as Mental & Mathematical Models of Evolution The question of “mental models” has occupied my thoughts for quite a while. As intelligent agents with a capacity for inquiry, we have ways of forming and … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 4

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Next Polymath Project • What, When, Where? Here’s a bit of data on the Theme One Program I worked on all through the 1980s.  My aim was to develop fundamental algorithms and data structures to support an integrated learning … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 3

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Gary Richmond The program I wrote for my M.A. in Psych was barely a prototype, a “test of concept”, as they say, but I continued to develop and apply the underlying collection of ideas to a number … Continue reading →

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Constraints and Indications • 1

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Christophe Menant • Jon Awbrey • Christophe Menant The system-theoretic concept of constraint is one that unifies a manifold of other notions — definition, determination, habit, information, law, predicate, regularity, and so on.  Indeed, it is … Continue reading →

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Theme One • A Program Of Inquiry 2

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List • Jerry Chandler I think I was probably the first person in that particular psychology department to submit a program as a master’s thesis, at any rate they didn’t have regular procedures set up for that kind … Continue reading →

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