"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics In the Natural Sciences" tells us there is something going on with mathematics and its relationship with Being that we've yet to grok. This is the main reason I'm interested in "top down" theories -- theories that avoid the copout of "emergence".
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:43 PM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:16 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I suppose exploring random topics in math could theoretically lead to > advances in AGI with nonzero probability. I'm betting that it won't. You > will need a stronger argument to change my mind. > > > > AGI is an engineering problem. > > Sure, and making a jet airplane is an engineering problem, but math > theories of stuff like fluid mechanics and electricity/magnetism are > pretty useful in designing the circuitry and the wings and the jets ;) > > As for "random topics in math", my own math explorations regarding AGI > are not so random and are guided specifically by questions that have > come up in OpenCog experimentation .... YKY's explorations interested > me for reasons perhaps different than his reasons for pursuing them -- > I'm interested in mappings btw cog. sci. and quantum mechanics, partly > because they might have clues for funky new sorts of quantum computing > algos... > > ;) > ben ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T54594b98b5b98f83-M0c04bb69ca82b595c29e7bac Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
