Machinamenta {ReadingNotes}

Machinamenta: The thousand year quest to build a creative machine by Douglas Summers Stay - ISBN 9781456317751 - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2011

Motivation

Describe in a sentences or two what motivated me to read this book.

Pre-reading model

List the main decisions that should be impacted by reading the book in order to estimate the Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#InformationActionRatio and facilitate rule design as suggested after finishing TheTinkerersAccomplice.

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• 1 Beauty from the Symmetry of Their Form
  • example of the kaleidoscope
• 2 Machines to Generate Stories
  • games and divination as social pseudo-predictive systems
  • Wikipedia:Ethnocomputing
  • (p20)

See also

• blog associated with the book http://machinamenta.blogspot.com
• reading notes
  • MecaMind
  • BeautifulCode
  • TheSocietyOfMind
  • ComputationalCreativityResearchTowardsCreativeMachines
  • CreativityAndArtificialIntelligence
  • ProvingDarwin
  • TheMythsOfInnovation
• own projects with multiple names
  • compcrea, CCAE, evolutonary epistemology, etc

Overall remarks and questions

• this? that?

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

(:new_vocabulary_start:) new_word (:new_vocabulary_end:)

Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Categories

• UncategorizedBook
• Unfinished

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