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

2008-07-13 Thread Ed Porter
Jim, Thanks for your questions. Ben Goertzel is coming out with a book on Novamente soon and I assume it will have a lot of good things to say on the topics you have mentioned. Below are some of my comments Ed Porter JIM BROMER WROTE=== Can you describe some of

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

2008-07-13 Thread Ed Porter
Richard, I think Wikipedia's definition of forward chaining (copied below) agrees with my stated understanding as to what forward chaining means, i.e., reasoning from the if (i.e., conditions) to the then (i.e., consequences) in if-then statements. So, once again there is an indication you

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

2008-07-13 Thread Ed Porter
Jim, In my prior posts I have listed some of the limitations of Shruiti. The lack of generalized generalizational and compositional hierarchies directly relates to the problems of learning from experience generalized rules that derived from learning in complex environements when the surface

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

2008-07-13 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: Richard, I think Wikipedia's definition of forward chaining (copied below) agrees with my stated understanding as to what forward chaining means, i.e., reasoning from the if (i.e., conditions) to the then (i.e., consequences) in if-then statements. So, once again there is