This is from an email exchange with Teri Lussier:<\/p>\n
Here is the computer for the rest of us:<\/p>\n
Imagine that civilization has collapsed. It’s happened before.<\/p>\n
Now imagine a computer something like the iPad (but durable enough to have survived and solar-powered or whatever).<\/p>\n
The ideal user-interface could be put to use by whomever finds that computer, with zero assumptions or expectations about what that person does or does not know about conceptual volitionality.<\/p>\n
It will be babies (crawlers, not toddlers) who will tell us — by their interaction with it — if the iPad is there yet.<\/p>\n
(FWIW, this is one of the things I’ve been waiting for all my life, a computer that can train its end-user literally from scratch — from nothing — from the complete collapse of all abstraction-based learning. If civilization ever does collapse again, a computer like this will deliver a much faster renaissance to the survivors.)<\/p>\n
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