Tag: Geek Night

GEEK NIGHT: Agents, The Intentional Stance, Cells & Babies

Tuesday, October 15, 2019
6:00-7:30pm

with Sarah Barnaby & Amy Matthews

“The intentional stance,” a term coined by philosopher Daniel Dennett, is a tool for predicting the behavior of semi-autonomous, interactive agents.

This simple theory of intentional systems is a theory about how and why we are able to make sense of the behaviors of so many complicated things by considering them to be agents. It is not directly a theory of the internal mechanisms that somehow achieve the rational guidance thereby predicted. The intentional stance gives you the “specs,” the job description, of an intentional system — what

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GEEK NIGHT: A Conversation About Collaboration

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
6:00-7:30pm

with Sarah Barnaby & Amy Matthews

In our first Geek Night of the new season, we’ll take up the topic of collaboration, which at its most basic (and etymologically), means working together.

  • What are the elements of a generative collaboration, where each participant contributes and grows, and the outcome is greater than the sum of the parts?
  • Can we find inspiration from looking at how our cells collaborate with each other?
  • Can we find support for improving our collaborations in principles of fractal systems that we’ve previously explored, including agency, participation and interdependence?

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