About Unorganized Machines
To all persons
A machine that has not yet decided what it is.
In 1948 Alan Turing described a machine assembled mostly at random, with no purpose fixed in advance. He called it unorganised. He imagined it could learn through training.
“All of this suggests that the cortex of the infant is an unorganized machine, which can be organized by suitable interfering training.”
Turing had a word for what shapes an unorganised machine: interference. Something touches it, and a region takes form.
The name Unorganized Machines holds that possibility open. A company needs enough shape to make something real. It need not decide, at the beginning, the limits of everything it might become. We want this to be a place where a difficult question can be followed far enough to change the people asking it.
The Way We Think
We begin as close to the foundations as we can. Before improving a thing, we want to understand why it took its present shape, which parts are necessary, and which have simply been inherited. Sometimes that means rebuilding from the beginning. Sometimes it means discovering that the old answer had a reason we had not yet understood.
One thing made does not decide everything we will become. A finished work gives a question a shape, and often leaves us with better questions. We want room for ideas whose usefulness is not yet obvious, and for changing our minds when the work gives us reason to.
The Way We Work
Organisation is how things get finished, and we care about finishing them. Here, each thing made is a small region that has been arranged for a while. The rest stays open. We can commit ourselves completely to the work in front of us without making it the boundary of all the work to come.
We learn by staying with what we do not understand: reading, building, getting something wrong, and returning to it. We keep the wrong turns in the record beside the right ones, because they show how an answer was reached and where it might still fail. An honest account of the work matters more than the appearance of having known all along.
These pages leave some of that process visible: the questions, the attempts, and the things that took form when we stayed with them. There is room for a reader here, too. Something you notice may change what we see.
What you will find here are interferences.
Company & contact
- Operating name
- Unorganized Machines
- Founder
- Advaith Gunna