[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: [ExI] Bootstrapping a singularity (not-essay) (was Re: MAX MORE in Second Life yesterday)

[Bryan Bishop]

On Friday 13 June 2008, Jim Hardy wrote:
> Point #1:  Look for Womack & Jones:  "Lean Thinking" and "The Machine
> that Changed the World.  These are good books, and they strive for
> perfection. Also, any book by W. Edwards Deming
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming] is amazing.

Looked at them yesterday. It looks like they are more 
management-oriented, rather than presenting how the processes are made 
and how to actually get the products and materials you need to get 
things rolling. Maybe this is just a catalogging issue. Anyway, I also 
found Kalpakjian who has apparently written some good texts.

> environmental inputs. Learned behavior, in a sense.  The human body
> is still the most sophisticated computer known to mankind.  The only
> system we know of (which is being quite silly because any mammal is
> in the fold), which continuously monitors their environment at
> changes that environment to be more favorable towards their
> sustenance.  We are a long ways from understanding how to build a
> computer that can do this.  We first need to understand how we are
> able to do it.

Actually, although it's exciting to imagine computers doing similar 
things, like Markram's giant brain simulatons or the recent Palo Alto 
visual cortex simulations that were announced on Slashdot as of 
yesterday, I've been collecting notes on how to go about setting up 
organotypical slice cultures and neurotissue cultures and the like, the 
concept of a 'brain farm' and such. Since the brain works (when it 
wants to) I don't see why implementing them is so terrible.

http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Neurofarm

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