How should we understand the word “Understand”
Scott Gerard
What does the word “understand” mean?. From the outside, is it possible to know whether someone — or some AI — “understands” you. What does that even mean? I assert that if you “understand” something, then you can answer questions and perform tasks based on …
Complex Adaptive Systems
John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, in their book Complex Adaptive Systems, discuss a number of topics we all presume we know, but that are seldom explicitly discussed. For example, they have really nice descriptions of modeling and emergence. They also talk about “computation …
