Strategies of the Artificial

Thanks to Readers

I want to express some thanks to the readers of this blog for their help. In August, I was struggling to find a way to make my research interests from ideas in my head to something I could work on systematically and publish. And I was willing to work very hard to get all of it out and in a form…

Thoughts on Agents

For a while, I’ve struggled to really understand why the idea of “agent” is so prominent in computational social science, artificial intelligence, software engineering, philosophy, and cognitive science despite many of these disciplines lacking any consistent definition of it. A particular…

Some Stray Thoughts Regarding Implications of Google’s New Quantum Computing Announcement

I will admit that I am still learning some of the theory behind quantum computing and my ability to understand is not as great as my knowledge of classical computation. I am…

Request for Comment, or Please Help Adam Do Interdisciplinary Research

I am currently working on the development of a paper that, when completed, will likely represent the first academic articulation of the approach that I will be using from this point on. As a preview of what…

Documents on Computational Approaches to Strategy

Update: I added another supplement on perhaps one of the most important issues in doing the research. It extends the emerging form of my personal research program quite nicely.

Intentionality is Hard

To sum up: to attribute subjectivity to an animal, you (the reader) may do so on the basis of anthropomorphism. For example, ‘My dog missed me while I was away.’ You did not observe your dog while you were away. You suppose that your dog missed you, because that is what you would do in…