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Someone who wrote a book about time perception co-authored an article in psychology today with someone interested in AI... It talks about the nature of being an informavore. https://t.co/dTuevlfbaI
A follow up article by the same pair discusses the nature of bacteria as agents operating on information while exploring Carrie Figdor's latest book in that area. She covers philosophy of mind. https://t.co/Wd37qydNXJ
It seems Carrie wrote guest posts on this blog. less than a week before her posts was this article talking about philosophies of mind and the nature of ants.https://t.co/B3g4Gh9RKiI wonder if that idea inspired cyriak.https://t.co/PHszfo5HRg
Mark Deuze quotes Esther Dyson from "Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?" https://t.co/YWzAzg0Bv8 while also referencing Gertrude Stein - A famous poet who also wrote about sugar. Interest in language/poetry Possibly explains transformation of informavore to informavoric?
Makes me wonder if the references to informavore'ism itself are inspired by thinking from other edge pieces: https://t.co/PzygLGA6G3
I've been channeling Howard Rheingold's thinking for a while it seems.Networks of note takers consuming information. Stigmergy based cognition?https://t.co/h4t8hwAJq7https://t.co/2gjdfN20Rn
I remember reading this comment back in 2002. Oh boy. That means I've been at least passively familiar with Rheingold since at least that long.https://t.co/DdYQGxhFBK