[FRIAM] The Atlantic article on "the illusion of reality"

[Steven A Smith]

REC/MD/GR/RA/et alii -

Having worked on problems roughly described as multivariate optimization 
decision support, I'm thinking, a high dimensional Pareto Frontier with 
modified Dempster-Shaffer methods implementing Fuzzy Belief and 
Plausability measures.   It maps well onto consciousness as 
wave-function collapse (for Quantum Consciousness Wonks) or at least 
(for CS majors) late binding. For English Majors, I refer you back to 
Douglas Adams who describes all of this in very good, imagistic prose.

- SASafrass

On 9/20/17 11:40 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> Roger writes:
>
> “If we perceived things solely according to their fitness, then how do 
> we perceive things which have multiple fitnesses, where different 
> aspects of fitness vary to different schedules, where combinations of 
> things have different fitnesses than the things met independently, 
> where some things imitate other things, and so on.”
>
> To select with regard to multiple fitnesses, it is necessary to have 
> rank orderings for each and to retain the union of some fraction of 
> the top performing ones.   That means more resources, having more 
> special snowflakes *and* more *kinds* of special snowflakes.     But 
> usually we just get frustrated and get some lunatic to create a giant 
> extinction event and call it good.
>
> Marcus
>
>
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