It comes from one of the most fundamental aspects of higher order cognitive ability, which is synthesizing concepts from perception. IE, linking perceptual items to some kind of symbolic structure. The closest I could find that kind of accomplishes such a feat is Drescher's schema mechanism, and related systems. If I could afford the book, I'd look into Ayn Rand's idea of how conceptualization takes place in her book, "Objectivist Epistimology." But given her track record, I'm not sure it's worth the $10. Haha.
But, yeah. Concepts are the key idea here. Sent from ProtonMail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Jan 31, 2019, 9:55 AM, Jim Bromer wrote: > There is one theory that writing actually developed as a result of > accounting. Ancient mud tablets which seem to represent counts of > heads of cattle and other agrarian accounts seem to be older than mud > tablets with cuneiform writing. Some of the cuneiform characters seem > to have been similar to the symbols used in the accounting of the > ruler's extensive network of farms in ancient Mesopotamia. (Don't use > this in a paper without confirming my recollections of theories that I > have read about in some way.) > But, it also seems that the modern mathematical system that uses the > n-ary system of numerical notation probably also developed out of > ancient accounting. Some brilliant accountant figured out that he > could use a single character for 10 cattle he realized that he would > not have to draw 32 cattle symbols to represent 32 heads of cattle, he > would only have to draw 4 symbols. > I mention this only to emphasize the idea that new ideas about the > compression of computational objects may arise out of the most mundane > of tasks and we may be casually discarding some ideas that might be > useful without even realizing it. > Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7b5333d2b2f0be46-M35edff44b3a838f9c7ff290d Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
