Thanks for this. A knotty topic. The Brits seem more interested in this then in US. Have heard some great Brit lectures which were completely incomprehensible. Always fun.
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Russ: I didn’t see a reference to _Hierarchy Theory_(1973) by HH Pattee. It covers a good bit of this ground. I came across it as a reference from Jeff Hawkins’ Numenta project. It talks about the relationship of natural hierarchy organization to emergent properties.
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Thanks for this. A knotty topic. The Brits seem more interested in this then in US. Have heard some great Brit lectures which were completely incomprehensible. Always fun.
Thanks for the mention. Here’s my attempt to explain it to philosophers. “Abstract data types and constructive emergence” Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers. (http://www.apaonline.org/documents/publications/v09n2_Computers.pdf. Starts on p 48 of the newsletter.)
Thanks for finding us! I’ll put it up now! Might you be interested in doing an online interview (by gchat or skype) about your ideas and their application to popular neuroscience?
Russ: I didn’t see a reference to _Hierarchy Theory_(1973) by HH Pattee. It covers a good bit of this ground. I came across it as a reference from Jeff Hawkins’ Numenta project. It talks about the relationship of natural hierarchy organization to emergent properties.
http://www.isss.org/hierarchy.htm