On Friday, June 14, 2024, at 3:43 PM, James Bowery wrote: >> Etter: "Thing (n., singular): anything that can be distinguished from >> something else."
I simply use “thing” as anything that can be symbolized and a unique case are qualia where from a first-person experiential viewpoint a qualia experiential symbol = the symbolized but for transmission the qualia are fitted or compressed into symbol(s). So, for example “nothing” is a thing simply because it can be symbolized. Is there anything that cannot be symbolized? Perhaps things that cannot be symbolized, what would they be? Pre-qualia? but then they are already symbolized since they are referenced… You could generalize it and say all things are ultimately derivatives of qualia and I speculate that it is impossible to name one that is not. Note that in ML a perceptron or a set of perceptrons could be considered artificial qualia symbol emitters and perhaps that’s why they are named such, percept -> tron. A basic binary classifier is emitting an experiential symbol as a bit and more sophisticated perceptrons emit higher symbol complexity such as color codes or text characters. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T682a307a763c1ced-Ma5a8d7f7d388f150f9437cf3 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
