Patterns exist - but they are islands in the patchwork seas of the real world. The brain is primarily designed to make sense of patchwork scenes and patchwork objects - and if you look too long at a heavily patterned scene, like a specially designed patterned room, you get sick – it ain’t natural. The patchwork nature of real world scenes is obvious and incontrovertible. From: Aaron Hosford Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:43 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Randomness: Mathematics as Perceptual Bias
Summaries of perceptual information. These are the elusive "patterns" you say don't exist. On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: Aaron: Todor's point was simply that logic (and language in general) merely express summaries .... summaries of what? Would you care to expand? AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription 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
