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Foundations

He remembered being inspired as a child by **gears**, as **"object-to-think-with"**, which he used practically as a model to understand mathematics & physics (and more). -> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes. [Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me." +> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes." notes: @@ -224,6 +224,9 @@

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--- +> "[Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me." + + This shouldn't mean making the computer teach--"the computer programming the child"--instead the child must program the computer, through having a conversation with it. - Not instructing mathematics, but exploring in "mathland" (not teaching French, but living in France) diff --git a/agents.md b/agents.md index 68a0c05..da8a723 100644 --- a/agents.md +++ b/agents.md @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Seymour Papert was a psychologist and mathematician, and education theorist, dee He remembered being inspired as a child by **gears**, as **"object-to-think-with"**, which he used practically as a model to understand mathematics & physics (and more). -> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes. [Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me." +> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes." notes: @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ A relevant aside: Papert was also firmly against the "schizophrenic" separation --- +> "[Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me." + + This shouldn't mean making the computer teach--"the computer programming the child"--instead the child must program the computer, through having a conversation with it. - Not instructing mathematics, but exploring in "mathland" (not teaching French, but living in France) diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 6c10c88..ed0c1e9 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -571,15 +571,25 @@

Machine intelligence and aut

There's lots of different ways we could approach this subject. For the purposes of our DIGM5010 course: what are some of the foundations of our field that may inform this?

Let's follow back through a selective history.