On Friday 21 December 2007 09:51:13 pm, Ed Porter wrote: > As a lawyer, I can tell you there is no clear agreed upon definition for > most words, but that doesn't stop most of us from using un-clearly defined > words productively many times every day for communication with others. If > you can only think in terms of what is exactly defined you will be denied > life's most important thoughts.
And in particular, denied the ability to create a working AI. It's the inability to grasp this insight that I call "formalist float" in the book (yeah, I wish I could have come up with a better phrase...) and to which I attribute symbolic AI's "Glass Ceiling". Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=78789088-cf88d9
