In My Language
A M Baggs: "The first part is in my 'native language', and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not."
Autism Rights
Labels: autism, epistemology, language, thought
Edge: THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, "THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD"
Lewis Fry Richardson's answer to the question of creative thinking by machines is a circuit diagram, drawn in the late 1920s and published in 1930, illustrating a self-excited, non-deterministic circuit with two semi-stable states, captioned "Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only Two Ideas."
Labels: creativity, god, ideas, mind, schematic, thought, will
