No I am not thinking of purely Boolean algebra. Even if it is entirely
consistent with logic, (Boolean logic) it still could be different than
logic. And "strength" or magnitude of some characteristic is not the only
possible weighting that is possible. For example, a collection of
statements (which in this case might be thought of as formulas or
calculations) could be represented with a single reference or with a
weighted reference value without it necessarily representing a strength of
some sort. ("Strength" is a common way of looking at what a weighted
reference is valuing so I am not being dismissive of referring to
'strength' as a nomenclature or way of talking about conceptual weight.
Strength or weight, in this sense, or just ways we have to talk about this
stuff. So maybe I am saying the idea of "strength" should not be taken so
literally as to think that a reference value has to literally be a
'strength' or magnitude of some sort. The most common alternative to
'strength' or 'magnitude' that I can think of is something more like
'selection set'. So, a weight might refer to a system of selections of some
sort. Although I cannot rattle off a lot of other persuasive examples of
what I am thinking of, the point is that a weighted reference (or a valued
reference) does not have to refer to the strength of an application of a
concept. You have to be open to other possibilities - even though they
might be subsequently dismissed as 'strengths' or 'weights' in terms of the
nomenclature that we typically use - in order to understand the potential
that is in plain sight.
Jim BromerOn Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:32 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I mean you can make a symbolic system without factors, but I guess you > could have factors but it would be in the form of a weighting of a symbol, > like "strength=6" but without the 6, its purely only boolean algebra, not > algebra. And it works without the 6 too, is all I mean. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T395236743964cb4b-M631583226ffd9d87fe7b3639> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T395236743964cb4b-M57ddc1978a165936911a0123 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
