About
“Kinocomputing” is concerned with motion-based approaches to computing and intelligence.
Inspired by Thomas Nail’s kinetic materialism, it is an alternative computing paradigm that emphasises the primacy of motion, non-discretised representations of reality, and the dynamic generation, movement, transformation and interaction of data.
This site and the underlying knowledge graph is a permissionless research project dedicated to its study.
About “Permissionless Research”
Permissionless research is an approach conceptualised by Venkatesh Rao. It’s a philosophy of scientific inquiry that challenges the need for prior authorisation, such as institutional approval, and questions the rigid adherence to standardised procedural templates commonly associated with scientific research, such as the traditional “hypothesis, experiment, result” model.
Instead, it encourages researchers to be driven by their own curiosity and interests, emphasising the importance of individual methodological and thematic preferences.
The other, equally salient aspects of permissionless research are the spirit in which it is conducted—working in public—and the use of infrastructure and processes that allow for permissionless interactions.
View the current permissionless research protocol
How’s it Going?
I—Matthew McDowell-Sweet, in case you missed it—am continually reading about different perspectives on motion, computing and intelligence. Once a week, I set aside a working block to engage with some of the key questions and inputs and add to the graph.
I am also setting up a periodic digest and a kinocomputing presence on the Metamind app, which allows you to subscribe to graph updates.
— Matt, late April 2024