We have an idea about what a situation is. However, there is no reason to think that situations can be considered to be a fundamental of an ontology of thought. If you wanted to search for such a thing you'd have to go further. So we induct 'objects' of thoughts (that might be objects, events, relations, attributes, contexts or situations) and find those which might best come together to represent what we would call a situation. A situation may most typically involve a juxtaposition of events at a certain time, but human 'situations' definitely include events of different temporal natures. A situation may be drawn from some of the components of a context and it might itself then form a context. You should know what I am getting at.
The recognition of a kind of situation has to be drawn from different experiences. But in the typical case I doubt that there are going to be absolute objects that will imply that we are in a particular kind of situation. This suggests that recognizable situations may be drawn from a collection of different events and that there may be many variations in the recognition of the objects that we use to react to a situation. What I am getting at is that we do not typically declare that we are in a situation unless we have ample definition of a constricted type of event so that the particular situation is named and well known to many people. "I'm stuck in rush hour traffic," might be a good example of a named situation. "I'm home working on my computer," is another example. The idea that I am "juggling" different ideas of things that I have to do represents a definition of a kind of situation but it does not define the kinds of things that I am trying to think of and to do. So the induction of the recognition that I am in a particular kind of situation seems to be derived from common learning. The application of the knowledge that I am in a particular situation does not seem to be very useful to me, unless it is unexpected. "I thought I had to go around the mountain but now I realize that there is no path around it." (The mountain is part of an extended range or something like that.) In that case the recognition that you are in a different kind of situation than you thought you were in might supply you with some insight that you can use to reshape your plans. But for the most part, the recognition that you are in a particular 'situation' would follow from your reactions to systems of events. Jim Bromer On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]>wrote: > Okay, > > Now that we have a fuzzy definition of situations, what do the words > "situation induction" mean to you? > > Please advise. > > ~PM > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-f5817f28> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
