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Larry Kilham

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My current interests are:

Study of cognitive processes including recent research results (especially the fMRI-based studies),

Associative information processing in computers, animals and humans.

Modeling imagination and the creative process.

- Larry Kilham

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Owen Densmore

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Hi Larry, interesting areas.

How do you go about studying these topics? .. i.e. are there methods
that appear promising?
- Game Theory
- Modeling, either mathematical or abm and their kin.
- Data analysis: clustering, hidden process identification etc
- Field work of some sort?

-- Owen

On Aug 2, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Larry Kilham wrote:

> My current interests are:
>
> Study of cognitive processes including recent research results
> (especially
> the fMRI-based studies),
>
> Associative information processing in computers, animals and humans.
>
> Modeling imagination and the creative process.
>
> - Larry Kilham
>
>
>> When you have the opportunity, please submit a brief introduction to
>> the list with your current interests/pursuits.
>>
>>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Orlando Leibovitz

Re: Brief introduction

Hi Larry,

How do you define imagination and the creative process. Recent conversations have been about these categories.

O

Owen Densmore wrote:

Hi Larry, interesting areas.

How do you go about studying these topics?  .. i.e. are there methods  
that appear promising?
- Game Theory
- Modeling, either mathematical or abm and their kin.
- Data analysis: clustering, hidden process identification etc
- Field work of some sort?

    -- Owen


On Aug 2, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Larry Kilham wrote:

My current interests are:

Study of cognitive processes including recent research results  
(especially
the fMRI-based studies),

Associative information processing in computers, animals and humans.

Modeling imagination and the creative process.

- Larry Kilham

When you have the opportunity, please submit a brief introduction to
the list with your current interests/pursuits.

============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org



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Orlando Leibovitz

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Larry Kilham

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Hi Owen,

I answered you, but unfortunately my email was rejected:

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My answer was:

Hi Owen,

I am not cartesian or reductionist generally speaking.

Cognitive science has taken a great leap forward start a few years ago with the brain observation tool fMRI. A sample such paper (and one of path-breaking importance) is attached. Hidden identification is certainly embedded here.

The big deal that changes analysis is the approximate computation using very large data bases. This is illustrated by Peter Norvig (director of research at Google) in http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html. A mega data base is what makes the Carnegie-Mellon study above analytically possible. (Indeed, the authors reference and use Norvig's Google data base).

My "field work" is mostly the creative process I learned from my inventive grandfather and father + my own inventions. Also, I wrote some papers on the mathematics of artificial intelligence (I was mostly concerned with cross correlation and associative inference) for Prof Minsky and others when I was at MIT, based partially on studies I did in the wild of such things as tree frogs. I still refer to those papers.

Imagination according to Einstein and others is still the most important part of the creative mind, but it resists conventional analysis. I talk about it in the attached draft. I would be interested in your comments.

- Larry

I can email to you as a personal communication the Carnegie-Mellon paper if you and/or others are interested. In which case, please give me your prreferrred personal email.

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Larry, interesting areas.

How do you go about studying these topics? .. i.e. are there methods
that appear promising?
- Game Theory
- Modeling, either mathematical or abm and their kin.
- Data analysis: clustering, hidden process identification etc
- Field work of some sort?

-- Owen

On Aug 2, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Larry Kilham wrote:

> My current interests are:
>
> Study of cognitive processes including recent research results
> (especially
> the fMRI-based studies),
>
> Associative information processing in computers, animals and humans.
>
> Modeling imagination and the creative process.
>
> - Larry Kilham
>
>
>> When you have the opportunity, please submit a brief introduction to
>> the list with your current interests/pursuits.
>>
>>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Creativity of the Projected Mind.doc (38K) Download Attachment

Larry Kilham

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In reply to this post by Orlando Leibovitz

Hi Orlando -

See the attached.

- Larry

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Orlando Leibovitz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Larry,

How do you define imagination and the creative process. Recent conversations have been about these categories.

O

Imagination, Creativity, Invention.doc (31K) Download Attachment