[FRIAM] Clocks

[Frank Wimberly]

Don't the sun, moon and earth work pretty well?  I'm not sure learning is
involved but they kind of define a standard.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 11:19 AM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reflecting on recent conversations (both here and abroad), Michael Levin's
> developments of polycomputing, and in preparation for my new role as career
> coach to a GPT model, I have come to wonder:
>
> How might one productively set out to architect an unsupervised learning
> machine capable of discovering what all can be reliably used as a clock?
>
> I am imagining a machine with sensory organs that is able to (though not
> necessarily) generalize its learnings. I imagine it successful if it
> decides to not rely on a broken clock, nor an image of a clock face, nor
> one programmed to move its arms at random. I imagine it is successful if it
> learns to track the sun, the circadian rhythms of animals or plants, if it
> recognizes the masing pulses of water in star forming galaxies, cellular
> clocks, etc...
>
> Would such a machine necessarily be/have a clock itself?
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