Other Index 5: Epistemology

1. █ Divider: 5
2. █ Section Title: Epistemology
3. █ An early review of what is meant by 'knowing' { 2790 2791 2792 2793 2794 2795 2796 2797 2798 2799 2800 2801 }
4. █ A way of getting information about unobserved variables 2734.
5. █ When does an experiment stop? 3245.
6. █ Passage of information from machine to observer, { 3248 3249 3250 3251 3252 3253 3254 3255 3256 3257 3258 3259 3260 3261 3262 3263 3264 3265 3266 3267 3268 3269 3270 3271 }
7. █ Peculiarities in studying a large active system 3427.
8. █ The observer as ensemble 4048.
9. █ The study of very large systems, 4141.
10. █ When a very large system is to be studied, the observer must pick on some few statistics to observe 4144.
11. █ When observing a very large system we should select those functions (those statistics) that are particularly likely to show a runaway 4148.
12. █ The observer must be present to disturb the system if ultrastability is to be demonstrated 4160.
13. █ Study of very large systems 4201.
14. █ Invariants are important because they can be adapted to at once, 4233.
15. █ Entropy and observation, 4245.
16. █ No one is a proper judge of whether he has or has not obtained "knowledge" 4301.
17. █ Knowledge must mean 'control' if it is to be objective, 4303.
18. █ Circularity of my theory, 4306.
19. █ "Knowing" as being at the right memory-state 4310.
20. █ All knowledge is knowledge of transformation, 4311.
21. █ Nature of knowledge and control, Review { 4348 4349 4350 4351 4352 4353 4354 4355 4356 4357 4358 4359 4360 4361 4362 4363 4364 }
22. █ Estimates of how fast knowledge can be got from a machine 4430.
23. █ 'Prediction' and 'control' are forms of regulation, 4438.
24. █ Distinction between 'design' and 'input' 4449.
25. █ Theory of Black Box, 4455.
26. █ Indistinguishability is an equivalence relationship, 4475.
27. █ Black Box may admit a homomorphism 4478.
28. █ The Black Box is a set 4481.
29. █ Homomorphisms in the Black Box, 4484.
30. █ Reduction of all problems to canonical form 4550.
31. █ Distinguishability is related to dependence 4559.
32. █ Theory of Black Box first considered 3076.
33. █ Darwin's method for the study of complex systems 4619.
34. █ When variety arrives, the observer who sees all sees unity changing to diversity; the element in the set sees diversity change to unity. 4691.
35. █ Homomorphism may result from states becoming indistinguishable. 4729.
36. █ A machine of n states requires n steps before the observer can know its design 4809.
37. █ Machine that builds a machine 4793.
38. █ The circularity of a brain that is itself a machine trying to study a machine 4815.
39. █ Proving the existence of hidden variables 4829.
40. █ The Black Box that can be only partially controlled 4841.
41. █ I can study either the Black Box, or a set of observers studying black boxes. 4841.
42. █ A machine observed at every n-th step is still a machine. 4871.
43. █ States that become inaccessible during the testing, 4939, and especially 4968.
44. █ The strategy of putting questions 4948.
45. █ "Observing" or "studying" a machine means getting sequence of inputs and outputs alternately, 4953.
46. █ The method of getting absoluteness by using past values is essentially second-rate 4960.
47. █ A set of states suitable for investigation must satisfy EXPRESSION 4990.
48. █ Deducing the machine from the behaviour 5003.
49. █ As the coupling between B and A is made richer, either by increasing channel capacity or by adding immediate effects, so will what is in B affect x the sooner. 5026. DIAGRAM
50. █ If only components in J are observable, and we know that the J-states have been, in succession, a₀,a₁, ... ,a_k, and if the machine's mapping is S, then the machine must now be in one of the states in EXPRESSION. 5050.
51. █ The whole system can be studied if one variable is observable; in particular, all the canonical equations can be deduced 5054.
52. █ Dispersion is used by the experimenter in recording his results, 4481.
53. █ "A does not know B's phone number" means, operationally, that if A is forced to make an attempt at calling, his action must be deternmined by some other, random, factor 5112.
54. █ Primary knowledge is the "raw feel". Science seeks secondary knowledge - the patterned and communicable, which consists only of higher relations among the raw data. 5282.
55. █ Law of conservation of complexity (in question and answer) 6889.
56. █ McCrea's "principle" (7113) "The less information we can get [about distant events] the less we need in order to make predictions that are testable by observation.".