Toward a cooperative brain: Continuing the work with John Taylor

I propose a three-step discussion following a research path shared in part with John Taylor where the leitmotif is to understand the cooperation between thinking agents: the pRAM architecture, the butler paradigm, and the networked intelligence. All three steps comprise keystones of European projects which one of us has coordinated. The principled philosophy is to 'start simple and insert progressive complexity'. The results I discuss only go as far as the 'start simple' point. The final goal is to find a bias that underpins the entire research effort. In this paper I will move within the connectionist paradigm at various scales, the largest being one that encompasses an Internet of Things instantiation. © 2013 IEEE.