“Were they reborn into a modern university, Plato and Aristotle and Leibniz would most suitably take up appointments in the department of computer science.” “Epistemology has traditionally been the study of Human knowledge and rational change of human belief. Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capacities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires and for action in accord with their mental states.” -Glymour, C., Hayes, P., and Ford, K. “The Pre-History of Android Epistemology,” in Ford, K., Glymour, C. and Hayes, P. [eds.] 1995. Android Epistemology
Daily Archives: June 18, 2009
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These are my links for June 17th through June 18th: Random Walk / Daniel A. Becker – RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness. The project RANDOM WALK simulates randomness in visualizations, which are easy to understand. In this way, it delivers insight into a phenomenon, which has so far remained unexplained. Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Typologies are Misleading (application/pdf Object) – In the following sections, we review Stevens’s taxonomy and provide definitions; many have used these terms without clarifying their exact meaning. We […]