Especially captivating is Richard Foreman's insightful comments about the vast expanse of information on the internet leading to the creating of "pancake people", those without the traditional depth that he describes as being so prized by Western Society.
Must read/see his latest play The Gods Are Pounding My Head, a.k.a. Lumberjack Messiah
Another interesting diagram depicts an early attempt to schematicize artifical intelligence and the ways that mistakes or error could breed ingenuity. To me this is one of the most interesting quandries of artifical intelligence. How to incorporate the beautiful mistake and the happy accident.
From Edge:
Lewis Fry Richardson's answer to the question of creative thinking by machines is a circuit diagram, drawn in the late 1920s and published in 1930, illustrating a self-excited, non-deterministic circuit with two semi-stable states, captioned "Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only Two Ideas."
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