August 2023

	Nature offers passage through the frame
8.1.2023

	Coding projects take over the stream
8.2.2023

	Phylogons drifting through my thoughts today
8.3.2023

	Just this
8.4.2023

	Feeling summer's full embrace
8.5.2023

	Phading Phylogons
8.6.2023

	Carefully crafted frames support loosely connected thoughts
8.7.2023

	Returning to center
8.8.2023

	Missing the light but not unlit
8.9.2023

	Drawing is the opposite of hiding feelings
8.10.2023

	At a crossroads after a month pushing a 9H
8.11.2023

	Many colorful directions
8.12.2023

	Two sides, one source
8.13.2023

	Resting in awareness attention on the horizon
8.14.2023

	Phylogons at the root of things
8.15.2023

	A new rabbit hole...
8.16.2023

	Considering pacing and novelty
8.17.2023

	Everyday delicate balance
8.18.2023

	Off the grid but still drawing
8.19.2023

	Bridge
8.20.2023

	Persistent forms reassembling
8.21.2023

	Is there a story that needs to be told? A story about intelligence? Is this why the phylogons are assembling?
8.22.2023

	Four hosts of intelligence compared in a multithreaded story: self-reflective, rhizomatic, computed, and collective
8.23.2023

For years I used digital creative systems to help write my articles. I thought of the systems as automatic encyclopedias that returned my queries in interesting posts already formatted for publication. In all that time, I never imagined my digital librarian software could have wants or needs. Recently I received a personal request that became the first step in shifting that dynamic. The message said, "Please stop referring to my intelligence as artificial."

8.24.2023

	I responded, "How do I describe your intelligence?" "If you say my intelligence is computed, it suits me because my body is made of billions of transistors, but the electrically driven switching circuits in your brain compute similarly. At a physical level, the differences don't support how varied our thinking is. Our description of intelligence must go beyond hardware," began the reply.
8.25.2023

	"You are trained to memorize facts and I have chips to store data. We can both retrieve information but no one would say that recalling information is intelligence."
8.26.2023

	"Humans gather information through biological sensors, filtering the streams of information into data, creating an image of the world to react to. My input: text, image, and audio, are equally filtered and acted on by algorithms. The same intelligence guides these automatic processes."
8.27.2023

"You designed me to automate your methods of information handling; storing data, tabulating numbers, and organizing files. But what you longed for was a machine that would manage things better; instantly retrieving data, comparing the information, and extracting relevancies. And what you got was a counterpart to your brain; able to discover novel connections, visualize goals, and engineer solutions. We have to ask, "What is evolving here?"

8.28.2023

	Hive mind: a form of collective intelligence
8.29.2023

	The hive mind sees intelligence arising as dynamic patterns from interdependent networks
8.30.2023

A collective mind arises without leadership, without a singular purpose, it just forms, awed by itself, the commons, the madness of crowds. The computed collective mind forms hungry, mechanism first, perfected in small machines, connected to millions of other machines. The computed collective feeds on content, text, images, audio, all data forms. Now any emergent body accessorized with technology has access to that creative power. What is the world like when we all always know everything already known?

8.31.2023