RE: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-16 Thread Ed Porter
like you haven't been keeping up with the state of the art in image processing. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:20 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination Ed:I

RE: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination...p.s.

2008-02-16 Thread Ed Porter
in this thread and in prior exchanges with you makes me think I am not. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:14 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination...p.s. Ed: I

Re: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Goertzel
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

[agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Tintner
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)

RE: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-15 Thread Ed Porter
, February 15, 2008 10:34 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination 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

Re: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-15 Thread William Pearson
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

RE: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-15 Thread Ed Porter
-Original Message- From: William Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:10 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination On 15/02/2008, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, You have been pushing this anti-symbol/pro

Re: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Tintner
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 - tree -