Jim, On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote:
> And notice that Steve has been talking about turning a representational > model into a mathematical model that would not be human-readable. > Inside a computer there are only bits. Present software can gather them up in groups of 8 and produce readable characters, to combine into words, etc. If you look down deep inside of VB and C++ at the way they handle character strings, they are stored in a heap. The things you reference in your program are ordinals, that point to pointers, that point to heap locations - VERY much like my proposal. Hence, don't be so quick to label my approach as being any less "human-readable" than other high-level language approaches. My approach using ordinals, triggering the queuing of rules, etc., would all produced from human-readable instructions written in, and the binary would all be reverse-mappable back to human readable form. After all, if programmer's can't observe what is happening inside their computer, they will NEVER be able to debug it. Note for a representation to work, it will almost certainly have to be dimensionally correct, akin to MKS units in physics. If the representation is dimensionally correct, there will almost certainly be some way of turning what is represented into human-readable form. Note that in the Lexicon in my proposal, are stored the character strings for the represented words. While this isn't used for computation (except for possible but very rare run-time string ops), it is there to be able to show what is being represented. One major use of this is for debugging. Also, some applications (like sales) need the ability to quote from the input. > If we figured out how to get a representational model working we could > begin exploring non-readable variations > I think you will need those "variations" to get the representational model to work. > which would implement features that we wanted. This could turn out to be > theoretically important. > ... only if it works. Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
