Thoughts in C++

Am converting my copy of Eric Baum's What Is Thought? to an ebook — it'll be great to have it on my Kindle; it's good practice for me at ebook production (from scans to PDFs to a Word doc to a Kindle ebook), and it's a great way of forcing myself to closely read every sentence (and word).

And as i'm doing the conversion (and reading the book), i'm thinking of the material in terms of writing C++ functions & libraries for my own word-based GOFAI software.

What FUN ! ! !

(And the debate on the legal propriety of ebook conversion is to me entirely moot, as there is no ebook for What Is Thought? otherwise available.)

Eric Baum's WHAT IS THOUGHT?

OK, time to get this blog going!

There's a class this fall at Tufts University—Comp 150-01 "The Evolution of Cognitive Processes"—that i really wish i could take.  It's an interdisciplinary look at Eric Baum's book, What Is Thought?, which i recently borrowed though the local library's virtual catalog and then purchased a copy from Amazon (for only $15, delivered!).

Who knows if i'll have the time or money to attend, but at least i can read the book (and work on C++ implementations of what interests me).  It's pretty good stuff, what i've read so far.

Gives me more stuff to think about when i go running each morning (my meditation time).  Even before starting the book, i'd already begun to work up my ideas of IdeaSpace and ThoughtSpace using words as atoms in an implementation of creativity and dreaming.

Thank you for your patience at my dilatory start to this blog!

Ciao!