Re:

can you introduce me to noam

sure, although I was going to include him in an intro to the whole group we sketched, could follow from that

either is fine. what would you need to fulfill the popper definition of falsifiable. . masquerade is a deceptive strategy. easily proven to be a false signal. . again the observer, of the interaction. has the more difficult problem as he sees both. of determinng, which image is real.

Did I send you this paper:

http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/11.12.Computing.pdf

and talk:

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/ideas/oct2011watson.html

? My real interest in thinking about thinking is the mechanisms -- I'm increasingly convinced that there needs to be a do-over of all of computing.

Neil

I would like to hear more when you have time. computing as compared to calculating?. . relationships as compared to equivalence?. Hillis in the early days wanted a machine that was proud of him.

If you get a chance to read it, I wrote that paper as a manifesto for the project. The idea is to make software look like hardware, rather than hide the difference and pretend they're unrelated. Think of this as the substrate for brain-building. Neil