Re: [agi] Neural representations of negation and time?

2006-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:42:37PM -0400, Philip Goetz wrote: I'm also interested in ideas about neural representations of time. Here's an interesting recent paper about representing space, not time: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/q-bio/pdf/0606/0606005.pdf How, when memories are stored, are they

Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:41:16AM -0400, Philip Goetz wrote: Why do we have both an email list and a forum? Seems they both serve the same purpose. Both planes and ships are means of transportation. So why do we have both planes and ships? Email and the web are very different media, and in

Re: [agi] list vs. forum

2006-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:39:52PM +0530, sanjay padmane wrote: I feel you should discontinue the list. That will force people to post there. Or will cause email-only users to drop out of the conversation. Sorry, I don't do forums. I only do web because of tabs and RSS, and there's nothing

[agi] Bayes in the brain

2006-06-11 Thread Philip Goetz
An article with an opposing point of view than the one I mentioned yesterday... http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/alex/pub/articles/KnillPougetTINS04.pdf --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL

Re: [agi] Mentifex AI Breakthrough on Wed.7.JUN.2006

2006-06-11 Thread Richard Loosemore
Arthur, Can it represent negatives? Time? Textures? Relationships? Distinguish homonyms from context? Represent the concept of a homonym? Represent itself? Can it handle deixis? More importantly, do you have any prinicipled reason for claiming that it will soon be able to handle

Re: [agi] Mentifex AI Breakthrough on Wed.7.JUN.2006

2006-06-11 Thread Ricardo Barreira
More importantly, do you have any prinicipled reason for claiming that it will soon be able to handle any of these things, other than your statement of optimism If robot builders were to add sensory and motor routines to Mind.Forth, the AI would flesh out its conceptual knowledge and interact

Re: [agi] Bayes in the brain

2006-06-11 Thread William Pearson
On 11/06/06, Philip Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An article with an opposing point of view than the one I mentioned yesterday... http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/alex/pub/articles/KnillPougetTINS04.pdf Why do you find whether there are bayesian estimators in the brain an interesting

Re: [agi] Mentifex AI Breakthrough on Wed.7.JUN.2006

2006-06-11 Thread A. T. Murray
Richard Loosemore wrote: Arthur, Can it represent negatives? ATM: Yes. http://mind.sourceforge.net/negsvo.html is the negation module. Time? ATM: Yes. http://mind.sourceforge.net/variable.html#t is the time t variable. However, the variable has no correspondence with actual time. On the

Re: [agi] Neural representations of negation and time?

2006-06-11 Thread Gabriel Recchia
Hi Eugen, Here's some research to suggest that representations of space and time might not be so different. From the abstract: The present paper evaluates the claim that abstract conceptual domains are structured through metaphorical mappings from domains grounded directly in experience. In