No Jim, it’s totally different. When a child or robot has to handle a new object, it does not have a set of hand shapes which it systematically considers and combines to form the new shape. It forms a tentative new hand shape straight away and adjusts that to fit – it “gropes”. It does not run through an amazing combinatorial explosion of hand shapes. Puh-lease.
When a child or robot has to explore a new territory – let’s say a rubbish dump or adventure playground/ obstacle course - it does not run through a combinatorial explosion of possible routes – it doesn’t know the territory! It has to discover the territory and obstacles as it goes along. By the same token, it does not run through a combinatorial explosion of possible obstacles, or possible ways to climb over them. These are new and different obstacles – even if also somewhat similar to previously encountered ones. The whole idea of combinatorial explosion applied to any creative activity/ new journey in a new field/ new composition is *absurd*. What was the combinatorial explosion you went through to compose your one-line post in response to mine?. That was a micro-new-journey. You were confronted with a newish idea, you came up with a newish response if only in context - in no way was that the result of a combinatorial explosion. If you did not have the handicap of being cognitively unable to consider examples of problemsolving , you would realise this more or less immediately. There can be no combinatorial explosion when you pursue a journey one step at a time - here are some real life, real world problemsolving examples: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22have+to+take+it+one+step+at+a+time%22&oq=%22have+to+take+it+one+step+at+a+time%22&sugexp=chrome,mod=4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 From: Jim Bromer Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 10:59 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Does Siri + Watson = AGI ? On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: If you can improvise - you can freely combine and innovate movements of different limbs. That is why we sometimes talk about things like "the combinatorial explosion." "freely combine..." combinatorial... AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
