RE: FW: [agi] WHAT PORTION OF CORTICAL PROCESSES ARE BOUND BY THE BINDING PROBLEM?

2008-07-10 Thread Ed Porter
## RICHARD LOOSEMORE WROTE # Now I must repeat what I said before about some (perhaps many?) claimed solutions to the binding problem: these claimed solutions often establish the *mechanism* by which a connection could be established IF THE TWO ITEMS WANT TO TALK TO EACH OTHER.

Re: [agi] Re: Can We Start P.S.

2008-07-10 Thread Valentina Poletti
Hey Steve, thanks for the clarifications! My point was that the operation of most interesting phenomena is NOT fully understood, but consists of various parts, many of which ARE understood, or are at least easily understandable. Given the typical figure 6 shape of most problematical

Re: [agi] Re: Can We Start P.S.

2008-07-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Valentina, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Valentina Poletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I explained above, many/most complex problems and conflicts can be fixed WITHOUT a full understanding of them, so your argument above is really irrelevant to my assertion. Yeh.. but i wasn't talking

RE: FW: [agi] WHAT PORTION OF CORTICAL PROCESSES ARE BOUND BY THE BINDING PROBLEM?

2008-07-10 Thread Ed Porter
=FROM ED'S ORIGINAL POST= it is precisely because the human brains can do such massive searches (averaging roughly 3 to 300 trillion/second in the cortex alone) that lets us so often come up with the appropriate memory or reason at the appropriate time. ==

Re: FW: [agi] WHAT PORTION OF CORTICAL PROCESSES ARE BOUND BY THE BINDING PROBLEM?

2008-07-10 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: ## RICHARD LOOSEMORE WROTE # Now I must repeat what I said before about some (perhaps many?) claimed solutions to the binding problem: these claimed solutions often establish the *mechanism* by which a connection could be established IF THE TWO ITEMS WANT TO