And maths was an awesomely brilliant invention because it enabled the drawing
brain to draw *precisely* and form precise structural and action plans for the
first time. Maths was and is not an a priori feature of the brain – or some
“universal computer.”.
And symbolic language and logic were awesomely brilliant inventions because
they enabled the pictographically drawing brain, to conceive of things as
identical units – uniform chairs, boxes and bricks, uniform a’s and b’s, The
real natural world is multiform, with every rock, log and cloud having an
individual not identical form. And the natural drawings of the brain and hands
of real world objects are also individual and different each time - we can’t
form identical drawings except with mechanical aids.
From: Mike Tintner
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 10:24 AM
To: AGI
Subject: [agi] Drawing Pictures vs Checking Boxes
PM: Jim, Where are the pictures? You need to visualize your "Cognitive
Structures"
so we can see what you mean.
Very brief statement of a revolutionary idea. The current AI view exemplified
by Jim et al’s ideas of conceptual graphs and other structures, is that
intelligence is essentially a matter of checking and combining boxes.
If the incoming y checks against your inner y box, you do x. If y, c, and d
check, then you do x, b and c. You basically check and combine boxes. The
Turing machine depends on this.
Not so. Human, real world intelligence is primarily drawing pictures –
primarily graphic pictures. To understand a train-shaped clock, your brain
draws the comparison. To understand “The block of concrete stopped the train”,
your brain draws a picture and draws a conclusion.
Technically, intelligence is almost always about: “what can you draw from
that...?”
The brain is primarily and overwhelmingly an artist, not a logician. (Hence
the impossibility of the present approach to Visual Object Recognition for
anything but boxily similar objects).
Now how can we produce a drawing machine?
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