You might want to check out Col. John Body's 1976 essay on the continual creation and destruction of mental models in the context of war strategy. This was a very disturbing idea at the time and didn't seem much traction outside military circles. But I think this is essential for nearly everything in a competitive world and as well as architecting artificial general intelligence systems.
Boyd, John. Destruction and creation. Leavenworth, WA: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1976.
Hofstadter was publishing after Boyd, but I see Boyd lists in his bibliography Edward DeBono. The man who coined the term "lateral thinking". DeBono only implicitly referenced chaos? In his case analogised to braided rivers??
I've thought of expanding this essay, which was limited to 3000 or so words, to draw in all the other threads I'm finding along the same lines.
You know, the oldest reference I've been able to find on these lines was no less than H. G. Wells, writing around 1900!
Wells: "...My opening scepticism is essentially a doubt of the objective reality of classification."
Amusingly archived by those arch "truth" reorganizers, the Marxists!
Even within AI, there's Hofstadter in 1979. Ben Goertzel wrote a book, Chaotic Logic, in 1996.
But nobody's been able to put anything together practically to apply it.
What is nice for me is that I started from a practical process, and only noticed what it produced might be chaotic. So I start from a practical application.
But thanks for this deeper reference to Boyd. I had heard of him in the OODA loop context, with connections to complex systems, but I hadn't known he went as deeply into common themes as this.
You might want to check out Col. John Body's 1976 essay on the continual creation and destruction of mental models in the context of war strategy. This was a very disturbing idea at the time and didn't seem much traction outside military circles. But I think this is essential for nearly everything in a competitive world and as well as architecting artificial general intelligence systems.
Boyd, John. Destruction and creation. Leavenworth, WA: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1976.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=13994112438515980960&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Oh, John Boyd is the OODA loop guy. I've seen other connections between him and chaotic ordering. In finance.
Nice. He's also drawing parallels to Goedel's mathematical completeness. Mind you, I see Hofstadter's GEB was published in 1979.
That led me to look up any connection between the two. I can't find any. But I found this:
https://slightlyeastofnew.com/2017/09/29/how-boyd-used-godel-heisenberg-and-the-second-law/
Hofstadter was publishing after Boyd, but I see Boyd lists in his bibliography Edward DeBono. The man who coined the term "lateral thinking". DeBono only implicitly referenced chaos? In his case analogised to braided rivers??
I've thought of expanding this essay, which was limited to 3000 or so words, to draw in all the other threads I'm finding along the same lines.
You know, the oldest reference I've been able to find on these lines was no less than H. G. Wells, writing around 1900!
Wells: "...My opening scepticism is essentially a doubt of the objective reality of classification."
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hgwells/1905/modern-utopia/appendix.htm
Amusingly archived by those arch "truth" reorganizers, the Marxists!
Even within AI, there's Hofstadter in 1979. Ben Goertzel wrote a book, Chaotic Logic, in 1996.
But nobody's been able to put anything together practically to apply it.
What is nice for me is that I started from a practical process, and only noticed what it produced might be chaotic. So I start from a practical application.
But thanks for this deeper reference to Boyd. I had heard of him in the OODA loop context, with connections to complex systems, but I hadn't known he went as deeply into common themes as this.