In my current thrashing about within AI and computational science topics, I returned once again to consider Wolfram’s New Kind of Science material. In brief review, Steve Wolfram has spent the better part of his life fascinated with computational complexity arising from simple algorithms. Initially
I’m nearing the completion of On Intelligence, past the point where the author stops presenting his sketch of a theory of intelligence, and moves into the land of speculation. He has answered the question “what is consciousness” in a rather straight-forward manner (it is the
The conversation about life frequency has lead me on a short intellectual stroll. I’ve wound up reflecting on number theory, a subject with which I am only tangentally familiar, but one which holds me in a certain fascination. As we will see, this fascination is