The World-Wide-Mind (WWM) is a scheme for putting minds (by which we mean the software to drive a real or virtual agent) online for remote re-use by third parties. Although the animat community favours the extension of existing agent minds in an ongoing process, there is currently no easy way to re-use minds built by other authors. If re-use became the norm, it is suggested that larger, more di...

The World-Wide-Mind (WWM) is an architecture that facilitates the construction of complex “minds” (software solutions) for virtual agents in online virtual environments (software problems). These complex minds are constructed by re-using third party sub-minds remotely through the world wide web by hosting both the mind and environment online. Until now there has been no successful language inde...

The paper attempts to describe the space of possible mind designs by first equating all minds to software. Next it proves some properties of the mind design space such as infinitude of minds, size and representation complexity of minds. A survey of mind design taxonomies is followed by a proposal for a new field of investigation devoted to study of minds, intellectology.

How do children begin to use language to say things they have never heard before? The origins of linguistic productivity have been a subject of heated debate: While generativist accounts posit that childrens early language reflects the presence of syntactic abstractions, constructivist approaches instead emphasize gradual generalization over frequently-heard forms. Here we develop a Bayesian st...