Perhaps it will start to give you a sense that words and indeed all symbols
provide an extremely limited *inventory of the world* and all its infinite
parts and behaviours.
I welcome any impressionistic responses here, including confused questions.
I agree with the above, but I think one
Perhaps this site will help some of you to start seeing that symbols have
extremely limited powers, and something more is needed - and also give you a
sense of how attitudes are changing.
http://www.imageandmeaning.org/
(it's part of the Envisioning Science Program - check out the movie)
I agree with Pei Wang 100% on this point.
Even though I find many of the comments from Mike to be interesting, I think
it would be much more productive to add to the solutions and problems of
creating a computer based AGI rather than trying to convince the converted
that AGI on today's computers
David said:
Most of the people on this list have quite different ideas about
how an AGI
should be made BUT I think there are a few things that most, if
not all
agree on.
1. Intelligence can be created by using computers that exist today
using
software.
Mike,
You have been pushing this anti-symbol/pro-image dichotomy for a long time.
I don't understand it.
Images are set, or nets, of symbols. So, if, as you say
all symbols provide an extremely limited *inventory of the
world* and all its infinite parts and behaviors
then
Gah, sorry for the awfully late response. Studies aren't leaving me
the energy to respond to e-mails more often than once in a blue
moon...
On Feb 4, 2008 8:49 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They would not operate at the proposition level, so whatever
difficulties they have,
On 15/02/2008, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike,
You have been pushing this anti-symbol/pro-image dichotomy for a long time.
I don't understand it.
Images are set, or nets, of symbols. So, if, as you say
all symbols provide an extremely limited *inventory of
In response to William Pearson's message below.
I agree a definition of symbol might be helpful.
By symbol I just mean something that represents something other than itself.
There need not be any explicit definition of what it represents. In some
cases what it represents may only be defined
RE: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-inationEd:I agree a definition of
symbol might be helpful.
In general there is agreement here, but some people do use the term confusingly
in an all-purpose way.
1.Symbols : Abstract signs that have NO RESEMBLANCE to the signified.Word -
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