Ducks All the Way Down

How systems represent concepts — through structure, behaviour, and symbols. A series on recognition, representation, and what it means to "know" something.

The Duck Problem

What does it mean to "know" what something is?

Looks Like a Duck

How structure becomes recognition — from pixels to features to "duckness."

Quacks Like a Duck

Identity through behaviour — duck typing, prediction, and knowing by doing.

The Word "Duck"

Symbols, tokens, and the gap between the word and the thing.

When It's Not a Duck

Failure modes — adversarial ducks, hallucinated ducks, and the boundaries of recognition.

All the Ducks at Once

Multimodal convergence — what happens when you combine every channel.

Duck Typing for Humans

You are what you do, not what you say you are. Identity through interface, applied to people.