Introduction to Opinions on Freud

I was very pleased to have recently come across one of Freud’s works Civilization and Its Discontents,   since I was eager to read his ground breaking opinions  which brought us psychoanalysis and a better understanding of the mind.  His work is important to me personally and to the reason for creating this blog because it enabled us to analyze our minds more precisely causing us to understand intelligence and trying to recreate it.

Though during my reading I found that I disagreed with many of his points of views and opinions, and since I believe this is an appropriate place to discus them, I will present here Freud’s thoughts and my opinions on the matter.

Presentation of the mind– conveying thoughts using digital tools and thier problems.

Communication of information is an ancient art practiced since 34^th century B.C using Cuneiform script, which at that time, as it seems, using pictorial representation was the most efficient way to describe and transfer information.

5400 years later things have changed. We no longer carve our presentations into a wall with a stick or stone but rather use more mobile and efficient utilities such as Microsoft’s Powerpoint.  Though the use of such quick means of describing information has caused us to be lazy with our resources, and so decided to represent out information in the simplest of ways – text.

Though to truly understand the problem we need to understand the objective of the current structure of text on changing slides.  Text is the simplest form to describe complex previous experienced information  using the changing slides  as a presentation of the changing timeline.  

How efficient are we with words?  Could we use a slideshow to describe a Monet?   

Edward Tufte   tackles the problem with complex structures presented in this graph of Napoleon’s March.  Though at first glance the design seems very interesting, what comes immediately  after is utter confusion what is presented is a complex use of multiple variables presented in non commonly fashion, which in turn confuses the viewer and does not inform until the graph is thoroughly explained.   At first seeming a step forward actually presents a step backwards, regarding one of the most fundamental reasons for actually using Powerpoint – simplicity of conveying information.

So to empower our ability to present information in the most efficient and rich way, a system must be devised which uses simple commonly understandable structures which can be taken apart and reused as simple representatives;  a program which is similar to power point though has the ability of knowing what is the objective of the presentation and forming simple pictorial representatives which describe the objective In the most efficient and conceptually rich manner.

A simple tool that does so with regard to statistical information is presented here and here.

First post and Introduction

I think I should start out with who I am before I begin explaining what this blog this will discuss.

My name is Shmuel , 18 from Israel but all that is irrelevant, what makes this situation unique is the single fact that for the past year I have been working on a new Artificial Intelligence program using new techniques I have been developing.

Which brings us to the reason for the creation of this blog;  Sooner if not later there will be change in the way we do things, be it interacting with others or with our own computers, hopefully I will be part of that change. Though the reason for this blog is to discuss those scenarios, how they will affect our every day lives and maybe come up with some insight into current ideas and problems with current artificial Intelligence.