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

2008-07-16 Thread Brad Paulsen
Richard Loosemore wrote: Brad Paulsen wrote: I've been following this thread pretty much since the beginning. I hope I didn't miss anything subtle. You'll let me know if I have, I'm sure. ;=) It appears the need for temporal dependencies or different levels of reasoning has been

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

2008-07-16 Thread Abram Demski
For what it is worth, I agree with Richard Loosemore in that your first description was a bit ambiguous, and it sounded like you were saying that backward chaining would add facts to the knowledge base, which would be wrong. But you've cleared up the ambiguity. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:02 AM,

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

2008-07-16 Thread Abram Demski
The way I see it, on the expert systems front, bayesian networks replaced the algorithms being currently discussed. These are more flexible, since they are probabilistic, and also have associated learning algorithms. For nonprobabilistic systems, the resolution algorithm is more generally

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

2008-07-16 Thread Richard Loosemore
Abram Demski wrote: For what it is worth, I agree with Richard Loosemore in that your first description was a bit ambiguous, and it sounded like you were saying that backward chaining would add facts to the knowledge base, which would be wrong. But you've cleared up the ambiguity. I concur: I

RE: [agi] Patterns and Automata

2008-07-16 Thread John G. Rose
From: Pei Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:49 AM, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In pattern recognition, are some patterns not expressible with automata? I'd rather say not easily/naturally expressible. Automata is not a popular technique in pattern