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RE: Soon the time will be right!

I think that he is referring to the fact that it’s called “intelligent” when it’s really just explicitly programmed (I count using massive labeled dat…

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RE: Soon the time will be right!

Actually I’m giving myself a bit of a break from reading and going back to studying C#. I’m going to tackle the forums and all of Steve’s quora answer…

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RE: Soon the time will be right!

I’ve broken it down to three broad questions, 1. Who is Steve? 2. What is Phantasia to you? And 3. Why should we care? ( I.e. What about the project …

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RE: Self organizing maps

@steve I know you’ve gone camping, so I’ll do my best to work it out for myself, but I’ve got a question about notes you made a dozen or so years ago….

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RE: Self organizing maps

@Mabus. I’ve learned a lot so far, but I think I’ll need a couple weeks yet before I can write an article that does justice to the complexity and tire…

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RE: Self organizing maps

I think I’m starting to get it. The autopilot analogy along with some of your comments from back in 2012 are really helping to bridge the gap in my m…

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RE: Copypasta from an ongoing conversation about my brain model.

@genesis Many years ago I tried to create my own A-life sim based on creatures, but I never could get them to want things badly enough to be interesti…

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RE: Copypasta from an ongoing conversation about my brain model.

@robowaifu-technician @genesis So my understanding is that the way the Phantasian’s brains function is similar to our own. Most modern AI such as LL…

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RE: Self organizing maps

That is actually really helpful! I’m imagining the feelers as sort of analogous to dendritic trees in a real brain, not sure if that’s totally accura…

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RE: Self organizing maps

I’m headed out of town and offline for a few days and I’m hoping to do some reading and thinking. I’ve downloaded a number of research papers from ar…

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RE: Self organizing maps

Thank you for the explanation, I’m going to file it in my notes under “Lessons from Steve” I don’t quite picture it yet, but little by little I thin…

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RE: Self organizing maps

The more I reflect on all that I’ve read, the more I begin to realize that this project has gone on to become so much more than the sum of it’s parts….

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Brain Map Wiring

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General

Moving with the mouse: Hold down right button to look/turn. While the right butt

Glossary of genetics terms

Editing this encyclopedia

Change log

The Simbiosis simulator

Building user mods

Physicality

Information at the software level.

Plant life

Frampton Gurney

Neuroscience

Introduction goes here

Biochemistry

Virtuality

This section of the Encyclopedia is concerned with the virtual world: Frampton G

Biology

Phantasia are much simpler than the animals we find in the natural world, but th

Reproduction

This article is about reproduction from a genetics perspective. See elsewhere fo

Sexes and sex chromosomes

We’ve just seen how reproduction sifts and selects among pairs of alleles,

Dominant versus recessive genes

For any given location on a chromosome pair, we find two versions of a gene – on

In-game help

This section contains the online help for various objects in the game. You can b

Genetics

Phantasians are defined by genes – hundreds of them! Each gene creates som

Encyclopedia Phantasia

Welcome to the Encyclopedia Phantasia. Here you will find detailed information a

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