Boris, You and I do not need to understand the particle physics of cellular microbiology in order to study an introductory text of biology. And in order to learn what the text is presenting, we do not need to reduce everything mentioned in the text to the order of particle physics.
So while I agree that we need to go to the basis of knowledge to resolve some scalability issues, and derived knowledge is often based on raw sensory experience, the point that I am trying to make is that the basis of knowledge that we have to use in many scalability scenarios are not raw sensory experience. For example, to really understand what is presented in the biology text we do not need to recall the sensory experience of reading. (I guess it would be nice to be able to do that but it is not necessary for the problem of learning to understand what the text referred to.) So we really do not need to reduce all problems to primitive forms. Also, some scalability issues cannot be resolved just by having the foundations of the subject (or object) handy. The potential complexity of interrelations (as in derivable interrelations) may make scalability infeasible. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- 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
