Mike, > Typically, of course, AI-ers are trying to adapt./ rescue logic to deal with > real world reasoning. Thus a Ben problem asks: > > "were Sue and Jane both at the clinic last Tues. at 4.00 pm?" > > an obviously logically adaptable (and rather artificial) problem. > > A real world and more realistic version of that would ask: > > "Sue and Jane were both at the clinic that time - but did they see each > other/bump into each other?"
The methods described in that book could be used equally well for either of these questions. > Humans can solve that, as they solve other forms of real world reasoning, > but not by logic - by going through their imaginative experience of the real > world and living in it - in this case of clinics and being in them. Such > real "spatiotemporal", " contextual" reasoning is not logical. Sometimes a human would solve a question like that logically, sometimes using episodic knowledge ... it would depend on the context and the information they had available >You might > have here for instance to think about the layout of the clinic, and which > doctors Sue and Jane were visiting. Obviously, this information could be used in a logical reasoning process... I suspect that you don't actually understand what "logic" means when the term is used by others; you have a habit of criticizing others' ideas based on the false assumption that they are defining terms according to your own taste rather than according to the definitions they explicitly state ;p ben ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
