January 17, 2016

The Instinct Is To Rebel

I need to remember who wrote this - it appeared in my email one day. It resonated.

Big data and machine learning (is) all oriented to one type of intelligence or a western view of intelligence. Mimic the brain, no heart. Instinct defined via algorithm. Maybe we struggle against this because deep inside we know its profoundly dysfunctional.

The more I read things like this, the more I keep coming back to Jim Woessner’s Box Poem.

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