Re: [agi] Uncertainty

2008-06-02 Thread Bob Mottram
2008/6/2 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the PLN / indefinite probabilities approach is a complete and coherent solution to the problem. It is complex, true, but these are not simple issues... I was wondering whether indefinite probabilities could be used to represent a particle

Re: [agi] Uncertainty

2008-06-02 Thread Ben Goertzel
I would imagine so, but I havent thought about the details I am traveling now but will think about this when I get home and can refresh my memory by rereading the appropriate sections of Probabilistic Robotics ... ben On 6/2/08, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/2 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL

Re: [agi] Uncertainty

2008-06-02 Thread Jim Bromer
Ben said: I think the PLN / indefinite probabilities approach is a complete and coherent solution to the problem. It is complex, true, but these are not simple issues... - I just started reading Ben's paper Indefinite Probabilities for General Intelligence and while I

[agi] Uncertainty

2008-06-01 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 6/2/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you give an example of something expressed in PLN that is very hard or impossible to express in FOL? Mary is probably female Not impossible, as Ben says, just awkward. The problem is that nearly every statement has uncertain truth

Re: [agi] Uncertainty

2008-06-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
I have briefly surveyed the research on uncertain reasoning, and found out that no one has a solution to the entire problem. Ben and Pei Wang may be working towards their solutions but a satisfactory one may be difficult to find. I think the PLN / indefinite probabilities approach is a