Diagrams Jim, Diagrams. ~PM
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:07:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [agi] Conceptual Structure? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] I forgot about conceptual structure itself. Conceptual structure is based on the idea that structure in language is vital to understanding language, and that structure in ideas must also be understood to understand the ideas. For instance temporal structure is often important and so is positional structure. But when you think about it these two kinds of relationships are only concepts. While they seem to have a wide application to many different kinds of things they are still only concepts. This shows that concepts may play different kinds of roles when used with other concepts. This insight seems obvious to me but it also seems obviously important. If you can find that certain concepts can take on the role of an abstracting or generalizing agent then doesn't this imply that other concepts might also take on roles that go beyond their surface characteristics? For example, the position of an object is what it is. To recognize that position and relative position might be used to create highly generalized principles that have advanced mankind's understanding of matter and technology is to recognize that a seemingly dull feature of a concept can be used as an agent of insight. So then I am saying that by exploring the roles and structures of concepts I expect to find other activating principles of insight that may have eluded us so far. 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
