Pink Monkey Farm: The Blog

The Mystery Of Behavioral Goals

Behavioral goals need to be specified in order to interpret action as optimal.

Behavioral goals demand an observer to specify them. Sometimes we call this observer “context”.

We speak of this when we bristle:

What you looking at?

Nothing

Wu Wei is the absence of this need.

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Gordon Brown is on board

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Wynton Marsalis on the Individual and the Collective

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The Farmer Introduces Himself

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Software, Affordance, and our Collective Nature

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Confederate States of America

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From a grass’s point of view….

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Abstraction and concreteness, complexity and simplicity

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Degrees of variation

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What the brain is for

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