[FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought

[Frank Wimberly]

Yesterday I saw an ant struggling to carry an inch-long piece of dried
grass toward his anthill.  I couldn't help but imagine that it was
thinking, "This is difficult but my community needs it."  I don't actually
believe it was thinking but...  We have large ants in New Mexico.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 8:55 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Wow!
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin
> *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2024 10:00 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We
> Thought
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> On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
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> Argh!  Could we dial down the Christmas in the elf stereotype?   :-)
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> I did push the santa elves in my prompt as that was the type of elf I had
> in mind at the time - I realize now the loss of elf geek cred:
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>    "Illustrate an elf lecturing to other Santa elves a deep geometric
> proof of consciousness on a whiteboard supported with candy canes"
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> I found it interesting that Dan Gupta "thought" of putting a ladder
> against the whiteboard which hinted at the the idea that the shorter elves
> needed it. And then the apparent "cognitive dissonance" that ladders tend
> to lean against walls instead of whiteboards which may have led to that
> inconsistency in the illustration.
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> Markus, yes, we can dial down Christmas. Dan wrote an elf selector for
> you. I prompted to first list 10 elf types, generate images of them, then
> choose 3 semantic vectors as orthogonal as possible to separate the elf
> types. Then, create an HTML page with 3 sliders for the vectors and sort
> the elves based on cosine distance to the slider values. :-)
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>       https://guerin.acequia.io/elfSelector
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>           https://guerin.acequia.io/elfSelector
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Stephen Guerin
> *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2024 3:14 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We
> Thought
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>
> Nick wrote:
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> So, what facts of the matter convince you that one or more languages are
> essential for meta awareess.  Or is it elf-evident
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> Sufficient proofs for Elf-evidence. ;-p
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