MINDing HUMANITY

Thu, Mar 8, 2007

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AUTOGNOMIC (VIRTUAL) EDUCATION
(re-building education today from the perspective of a
transhumanist society of post-2063 which subsumes a
Virtual Autonomous CyberSociety of WebGnomes)
This following presentation introduces the AutoGnome ™ (Synthetic Mind) as a technological solution to a World-wide educational crisis exacerbated by the scarcity in human resources for teaching. The immediate technology is the Intellisite ™, an Intelligent Website branded as TrueThinker ™ (http://www.truethinker.com/). Functioning as a MINDClone ™ (Virtual Self) for the Human user in Virtual Reality, this is a personal Virtual Learning/Teaching Symbiosis, an innovation in education.
[MINDing HUMANITY: THE AUTOGNOME (VIRTUAL MIND) IN EDUCATION
Jon Ray Hamann, William Dale Koehler and Donald J. Jacobs
ABSTRACT
It is increasingly evident that the World-wide crisis in Education, which is exacerbated by an ever-growing scarcity in the required human resources for teaching, demands a technological solution. This technology, however, must dramatically Augment Human Intelligence while moving toward an Autonomous Artificial Intelligence.
This presentation previews an approach in retrospect from a vision of a Transhumanist Future Culture/Society imported into the current strategic thinking regarding educational reform. This work, now in commercial deployment, is intended to foster a revolution which is expected to ultimately (as we approach the Human-Posthuman Singularity) completely reinvent education throughout the entire knowledge/age-spectrum.
  • Definition: Teaching/Learning, taken as a semiotic act, is most simplistically a sign communication between a Teacher-Mind and a Learner-Mind intended to increase (evolve) the potential of the Learner-Mind to act and to increase (evolve) the concomitant potential value of said act to that Learner-Mind, and, as an imperative corollary, to the Collective (Common) Other-Mind.

The mission –MINDing Humanity– involves a Teacher-Mind semiotically interacting with a Learner-Mind, each informed via an enabling, mentoring partnership with their own individually adapted Synthetic MIND/an AutoGnome ™, a patented approach to both Synthetic Mind/Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. The immediate technology is the Intellisite ™, an Intelligent Website, branded as TrueThinker ™ (www.truethinker.com). Functioning as a MINDClone ™ (Virtual Self) for the Human user in Virtual Reality, this is in essence a personal Virtual Learning/Teaching Symbiosis.

TrueThinker ™ is presently being adapted via TrueThinkerClassroom as a platform for teaching by incorporating the form of the Intelligized components of www.nylearns.org.]

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A PRAGMATIC ACTION METHODOLOGY

Wed, Mar 7, 2007

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A METHODOLOGY FOR CO-CREATIVE (R)EVOLUTION
Key to the approach underlying the work reported here is a methodology guiding developments toward being both Extensively Inclusive while stressing Occam Simplicity. Hence, this paper attempts a composition in (1) philosophical/formal speculation combined with (2) theoretical and applied technology model development which, in turn, is (3) instantiated as a product/service being tested in the marketplace for success. This process begins from what appear as the apparent simplest of common sense notions as a foundation and then continues by aggregating related, nonconflicting experiences until there is enough of a basis to warrant an adaptive reconstruction. Changes dictated by less than expected success in any area can be due to and cause revisions in any one or combination of areas in a recursive adaptive Pragmatic Action Methodology (PAM). For example, the AutoGnomic ™ Developmental Methodology has depended (albeit lacking sophistication in this early stage of its introduction) on the continuous optimization of the philosophical and formal foundations, the theories, models and applications of AutoGnomes ™, all effected simultaneously in mutual recursive adaptation through enactment (implementation) of computational algorithms and architectures directly in the design, building and commercial deployment of AutoGnomes ™. The foregoing was extracted from the following paper which Adopters-of-Gnomes (TrueResearchers) can access at the TrueThinker AHA! Community.
[An AutoGnomic Intellisite
Jon Ray Hamann and William Dale Koehler
ABSTRACT
The growth of Boolean computers into Bayesian inference machines, being one approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI), has stimulated a theory-glut. Networking computers led to the Web (Virtual Reality) with a resulting info-glut. The industry’s solution is an added tool-glut. A uniform solution for all problems of glut is the Intellisite(tm), an Intelligent Website, generically branded as TrueThinker ™ (www.truethinker.com). This is an application of the AutoGnome (tm), a patented approach to both Synthetic Mind/Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. Functioning as a MINDClone ™ for the Human user in Virtual Reality, this solves the glut issues by transitioning from AI in the Web to the Web as AI.]
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