Point about DESTIN, it has no preconceived assumptions. Some of the entities might be chairs, but it will not have been specifically told about a chair.
- Ian Parker On 9 August 2010 12:50, Jim Bromer <jimbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > The mind cannot determine whether or not -every- instance of a kind > of object is that kind of object. I believe that the problem must be a > problem of complexity and it is just that the mind is much better at dealing > with complicated systems of possibilities than any computer program. A > young child first learns that certain objects are called chairs, and that > the furniture objects that he sits on are mostly chairs. In a few cases, > after seeing an odd object that is used as a chair for the first time (like > seeing an odd outdoor chair that is fashioned from twisted pieces of wood) > he might not know that it is a chair, or upon reflection wonder if it is or > not. And think of odd furniture that appears and comes into fashion for a > while and then disappears (like the bean bag chair). The question for me is > not what the smallest pieces of visual information necessary to represent > the range and diversity of kinds of objects are, but how would these diverse > examples be woven into highly compressed and heavily cross-indexed pieces of > knowledge that could be accessed quickly and reliably, especially for the > most common examples that the person is familiar with. > Jim Bromer > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:16 AM, John G. Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com>wrote: > >> Actually this is quite critical. >> >> >> >> Defining a chair - which would agree with each instance of a chair in the >> supplied image - is the way a chair should be defined and is the way the >> mind processes it. >> >> >> >> John >> > *agi* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
