"complex things are composition of simpler but more general things"
I've long felt that the general things, really invariant principles, are rooted in metaphysics. But respectable scientists don't like to say metaphysics because it conjures up images of Heidegger's "pompous nonsense" (which is how Bunge defines metaphysics in the popular sense) and somebody working on philosophy is bound to get nowhere, right? Really, "first principles" is a more scientific or at least more sober sounding term. On 8/8/19, Brett N Martensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, You are right on the money! > It's called transfer learning and comes from having generalization in a > compositional hierarchy in which more complex things are composition of > simpler but more general things. And the lowest level simplest things yet > most general are the stimuli that come from sensors and that also makes it > grounded. > Brett ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T187cd9f14076b86f-M75c0d3455fdfc57f3adbcef0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
