The same kind of argument that goes for inferences goes for interpreting a declarative statement as a procedure. Computer programs can easily be made to make inferences from syntheses formed between references to concepts (words and phrases in a text-based AGI program.) Similarly, computer programs can easily be made to interpret declarative statements as procedures. The problem is getting them to do these things intelligently. Only a small percentage of potential declarative to declarative inferences or declarative to procedural inferences are going to be useful. And the same goes for procedural to declarative and procedural to procedural inferences. (I figured a new way to look at something important by using an obvious turning-the-crank computational method.) Jim Bromer
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