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- 1. Why VitalismWon’t Die; or Refactoring Agency Mike Travers mt@hyperphor.com http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.co m RefactorCamp 2012
- 2. Trained in the mechanist/reductionist tradition • The world consists of physical objects and forces • This is theoretically enough to explain everything • Success story: molecular biology • Not-so-successful story: AI
- 4. Vitalism / Animism • Mechanism violates people’s commonsense intuitions (eg free will) • Not going to get into this tired debate • Old, more or less discredited theories of “life force”
- 5. My nagging itch • Despite its unscientificness, • There’s something in vitalist and similar theories that we need to pay attention to.
- 6. How to be a vitalist at MIT • I cheated -- with the epistemological / metaphorical turn • How do people understand the world, and computers, and systems? • Through a wide variety of metaphors including – Animate Metaphors – Agents – Programming by creating networks of agents
- 7. Distributed Agency • Minsky’s Society of Mind • EO Wilson’s Ant Colonies • Hewitt’s Actor Model of Computation • Agre& Chapman’s Situated Action
- 8. Vivarium Project (Apple and MIT)
- 11. Other neo-vitalists • Christopher Alexander from Pattern Language to a radical metaphysics of the living • Bruno Latour and followers A democracy of objects
- 13. Refactoring Agency ‘In the case of ... potato chips, it seems appropriate to regard the hand’s actions as only quasi- or semi- intentional, for the chips themselves seem to call forth, or provoke and stoke, the manual labor…To eat chips is to enter into an assemblage in which the I is not necessarily the most decisive operator” -- Bennett, Vibrant Matter
- 14. Refactoring the grammar of agency I ate the potato chips. The potato chips were eaten by me. The potato chips compelled me to eat them I ate the potato chips. The potato chips eta me. ???
- 15. So what? • We are increasingly embedded in complex networks of sociotechnology • How do we make sense of it? • We need to be able to analyze systems through simultaneous application of a variety of cognitive systems: – Mechanical – Tool – Agency • Software has goals of its own, whether we acknowledge it or not
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