On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems obvious that if the bases for all > higher thought are themselves relativistic then the foundations of > thought will be permeated with flaws and won't be able to withstand > much building. I think it is a misinterpretation to say that thought > requires a ground of sensory input and the evidence for this is that > the grounding issue has been widely known since the 1980s and yet > progress in AGI has been slower than Moore's Law (in my opinion) since > then. The structure of thought has to be fluid, but it has to be a > slow fluid. My conjecture is that almost all reasoning, even > something that has been habituated, requires some imagination. > Jim Bromer
Perhaps the imagination has to be used to check the structure of an extension of an idea (even in the more mundane cases) to make sure that there is nothing in the new extension that would make the structure unstable. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- 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
