I would submit that "John Smith won the lottery" is neither a prediction nor an
explanation. It is just a statement of fact which has a different structure.
It can be included in a predictionas either the antecedent or consequent.
A prediction has the form "If x then y", an explanation "y because x", which
are both the samestructure.
This is my view of things.
~PM
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:48:24 +0000
Subject: Re: [agi] Internal Representation
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]>
wrote:
Two notes.
#1 - I was taught that a prediction and an explanation are the same entity: one
is viewed prospectively whilst the other is viewed retrospectively.
It's worth bearing in mind that this is not entirely true. For example, when we
hear that John Smith won the lottery last week, what is the explanation?
Answer: it's a random lottery, somebody is going to win. But we could not
predict from this that John Smith was going to win the lottery.
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