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ChatGPT plays the beheading game [Happy Trails](new-savanna.blogspot.com)
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Why is it that two companies dominate the production of advanced chips?(new-savanna.blogspot.com)
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Did Miriam Yevick know something in 75 the "AI Godfathers" didn't know in 2018?(new-savanna.blogspot.com)
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I gave ChatGPT three lists of topics for which it had to propose categories into which the topics could be sorted. Two lists were relatively short, 56 and 53 topics; I asked ChatGPT to propose six organizing categories for each. One list wa
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ChatGPT responds the prompt, "story", with a simple story. 10 stories elicited by that prompt in a single session have a greater variety of protagonists than 10 stories each elicited in its own session. Prototype: 19 stories were
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In a few cases ChatGPT responds to a prompt (e.g. "To be or not to be") by returning a specific text word-for-word. More often (e.g. "Johnstown flood, 1889") it returns with information, but the specific wording will var
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This article recounts an intellectual journey that began in curiosity about the structure of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" in the late 1960s and has led to an interest in large language models at the present time. A close analysis
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Culture elaborates expressive forms by developing ever more differentiated control over patterns in the expressive medium. In Rank 1 culture (preliterate) music evolves through control over rhythm. Rank 2 culture (literacy) gains control ov
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Chuck Jones believed in the “disciplines” one had to maintain for a cartoon, the constraints within which one acted. In the Road Runner cartoons, no one talked, though there could be signage, the action always centered on two, and only two,
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This is a brief guide to the various papers and books that William Benzon and David Hays have written about the long-term evolution of culture. Much of the work is descriptive in that it characterizes a variety of cultural phenomena at four
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Symbols and Nets: Calculating Meaning in “Kubla Khan”(academia.edu)
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This is a dialog between a Naturalist Literary Critic and a Sympathetic Techno-Wizard about the interaction of symbols and neural nets in understanding "Kubla Khan," which has an extraordinary structure. Each of two parts is like
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These notes are in preparation for a post I will make on 5 July 2010 at the Forum on the website the National Humanities Center. I have been posting them on my blog, New Savanna (see URL below). My Forum post will, of course, be an independ
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Opening paragraph: The ontology of common sense is the discipline which seeks to establish the categories which are used in everyday life to characterize objects and events. In everyday life steel bars and window panes are solid objects. Fo
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Cultural Studies, Future Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Futurism ...more ▾ With cultural evolution new processes of thought appear. Abstraction is universal, but rationalization first appeared in ancient Greece,
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This document collects a series of blog posts in which I prompted ChatGPT to tell a story. The exact nature of the prompts varied from simple-"Tell me a story"-to complex, where ChatGPT had to create a new story based on an existi
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People in oral cultures tell stories as a source of mutual knowledge in the game theory sense (think: “The Emperor Has No Clothes”) on matters they cannot talk about either because they resist explicit expository formulation or because they
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Kawajiri’s Ninja Scroll features two interlaced of sex scenes, each involving men who are large and hulking and men who are smaller. But one man is clothed in the robes of minor officialdom and has appropriately dressed hair while the other
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129 is considered in two analytical contexts. The main context is as a case study in abstract cognition as studied by David Hays and his students. In that model a three level cognitive system (systemic, episodic and gno
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After an introductory chapter, Mithen has six chapters that are more or less about music and the brain. The second part of the book consists of ten chapters starting with a review of primate communication and then presenting Mithen’s specul
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In The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki weaves various modes of experience in depicting the somewhat fictionalized life of Jiro Horikoshi, a Japanese aeronautical engineer who designed fighter planes for World War II. Horikoshi finds his vocation
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While science has accepted biological evolution through natural selection, there is no generally agreed explanation for why evolution leads to ever more complex organisms. Evolution yields organismic complexity because the universe is, in i
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Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis is ultimately a narrative about the nature of art told in a concrete visual and verbal logic accessible to a child. The story unfolds across multiple domains – Greater Metropolis, Underground, Child’s World – and h
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In his work on memetics Daniel Dennett does a poor job of negotiating the territory between philosophy and science. The analytic tools he has as a philosopher aren’t of much use in building accounts of the psychological and social mechanism
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Russell A. Barkley has argued that ADHD is fundamentally a disorientation in time. These notes explore the possibility that music, which requires and supports finely tuned temporal cognition, might play a role in ameliorating ADHD. The disc
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While science has accepted biological evolution through natural selection, there is no generally agreed explanation for why evolution leads to ever more complex organisms. Evolution yields organismic complexity because the universe is, in i
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With cultural evolution new processes of thought appear. Abstraction is universal, but rationalization first appeared in ancient Greece, theorization in Renaissance Italy, and model building in twentieth-century Europe. These processes empl
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What economists have identified as stagnation over the last few decades can also be interpreted as the cost of continuing successful engagement with a complex world that is not set up to serve human interests. Two arguments: 1) The core arg
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We can think of the self as the result of interaction between subcortical systems for regulating the global brain state and largely cortical systems for representing the current body state and autobiography. The personal pronoun system is a
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I treat a single word, Xanadu, as a “meme” and follow it from a 17th century book, to a 19th century poem (Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"), into the 20th century where it was picked up by a classic movie ("Citizen Kane"),

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