These papers date from my time in research in BT’s Complex Systems Laboratory, quickly sketching out positions in specific areas with a view to eventual re-crafting into more extended, carefully argued articles.
This 1999 conference paper draft argues that it is physics, not logical possibility, which sets the most important constraints on human cognitive transitions. This paper draws in part on the material in “Biological Cognition & Universal Computation”.
This 1997 paper attempts to make precise some possible ways of quantifying an organism’s, computer’s, or other system’s general processing power.
This 1997 paper defends the claim that typical pre-theoretic notions of intelligence do not map to a scientifically well defined quantity and cannot easily be sharpened to do so.
This 1997 paper explores one possible rationale behind attempts to measure intelligence or cognitive ability empirically.
This 1997 draft describes what would appear to be an information theoretic advantage of analogue computation over digital. The central idea is that digital computation abstracts away from most physical properties of a computational substrate, thereby rendering the information content of the laws of physics inaccessible except when explicitly added back in.
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