I believe that a (moderate) coherentist approach makes sense. You can use logic, correlation, abstraction, synthesis, generalization, specification, probability and conjecture across the conceptual objects of the system. But when some objects of interest are found to be related, I think there should be an attempt to find out why or how they are related. I feel that mere association or correlation is not enough to act as a basis for AGI. The program has to search for reason-based reasoning as well. If a reason can't be found or the observations do not stand out then association or correlation is adequate, but the idea that association or correlation is substantial as a basis for knowledge just does not seem right to me. Jim Bromer
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