Letter Spirit Examiner: An example of emergent computation

Based on Gary McGraw‘s thesis work with Doug Hofstadter, Letter Spirit (part one): Emergent High-Level Perception of Gridletters Using Fluid Concepts, the Letter Spirit Examiner hosted here categorizes gridfont shapes into letter categories by running hundreds of micro-agents stochastically in parallel. High-level perception emerges from the actions of swarms of sub-symbolic bottom-up codelets under the influence of top down concepts.

Play with an interactive working version in your browser here: Letter Spirit Examiner

Code recreation credit to Paul Geiger: https://github.com/Paul-G2/letter-spirit-examiner-js

Learn about the inner workings of the Letter Spirit Examiner here.