- Robots, AI and Automation – Links by Martin Ford, econfuture December 4, 2012
- The Great Decoupling of the US Economy by Andrew McAfee, December 2012
- Investment Opportunities in Automated Economy by Ted Schwartz, ABC News November 2012
- 1 Million Robots To Replace 1 Million Human Jobs At Foxconn? First Robots Have Arrived. by David J. Hill, Singularity Hub December 2012
- Simulated brain scores top test marks by Ed Yong, Nature News & Comment November 2012
- Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of Thousands Of Books On Amazon by David J. Hill, Singularity Hub December 2012
- The Emergence of Distributed Cognition – a conceptual framework, Learning Change December 2012
- On the Foundations of the Theory of Evolution by Diederik Aerts, Stan Bundervoet, Marek Czachor, Bart D'Hooghe, Liane Gabora, Philip Polk, Sandro Sozzo, December 2012
- Digital labor : portrait de l'internaute en travailleur exploité, France Culture December 2012
- mention of "audience commodification" proposed in the 50s
- concept of "immateriels non-codifiables" by Yann Moulier-Boutang
- see also TheDarkSideOfGoogle
- mention of Bifo's cognitariat
- Creativity Cognitive Mechanisms, and Logic by Abdel-Fattah, Besold and Kuhnberger, AGI Conference 2012
- Is Science Mostly Driven by Ideas or by Tools? by Freeman J. Dyson, Science December 2012
- The Algorithmic Origins of Life by Walker and Davies, 2012
- talk from SETI watched earlier
- to explore from bibliography (yet to order)
- already explored earlier (yet to link)
- Tononi, Turing, Von Neumann, Chaitin, Vasas et al., Hofstadter, Chaitin, Campbell (via Cziko)
- already explored earlier but beyond the bibliography (also yet to link)
- Bit by Bit: The Darwinian Basis of Life by Gerald F. Joyce, PLOS Biology 2012
- "all of the bits that were provided at the outset would have derived from the preexisting organism. To be considered a new life form, the majority of bits must be self-derived."
- makes me wonder about the importance of a programming language for artificial creativity
- e.g. does Lisp with its compact core (eval/apply) and its objective of being the meta-language is particularly well positioned
- Top-down causation by information control by Auteltta et. al, 2008
- main argument being functional equivalence
- Figure 5: The basic feedback control process
- Performer / Controller (goal) / Comparator (regulator/sensor)
- Figure 7: Top-down causation
- SFI Ulam Memorial Lecture 2012 Lecture I - Beauty and Truth in Mathematics and Science by Robert May, October 2012
- SFI Ulam Memorial Lecture 2012 Lecture II - What Is Stability in Today's Complex Financial Systems? by Robert May, October 2012
- SFI Ulam Memorial Lecture 2012 Lecture III - People and Tomorrow's (Too Small) World by Robert May, October 2012
- Breakthrough: Robotic limbs moved by the mind - 60 Minutes, CBS News December 2012
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