Ben, The following is a brief summary of my responses to the paper.
The topics where I agree with Cassimatis: *. "humans use the same or similar mechanisms for linguistic and nonlinguistic cognition" *. there are "dualities between elements of physical and grammatical structure" *. "Infant physical reasoning mechanisms are sufficient to infer grammatical structure" The topics where I disagree with him: *. the notion of "physical reasoning/inference" --- I understand why he used the phrase, and he wasn't the one to coin it, but it still sounds weird to me *. "Dualities between elements of physical and grammatical structure" --- He still uses predicate calculus, which lacks support for concepts with internal structures. Term logics will do much better here. *. "Long-distance dependencies and apparent motion" --- The duality here is much less natural than the others. *. He should relate his work to the book "Language and Learning: Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky" --- in that famous debate, what Piaget lacked are constructive arguments, which can be provided by works like Cassimatis'. Pei On 12/26/05, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a rare occurence, but I have just read an AI research paper which > is of nontrivial interest... > > A model of syntactic parsing model based almost entirely on the > mechanisms in the physical reasoning model, making the case for the > cognitive substrate principle. > > N. L. Cassimatis (2004). Grammatical Processing Using the Mechanisms > of Physical Inferences. In Proceedings of the Twentieth-Sixth Annual > Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) > > available at > > http://www.cassimatis.com/polyscheme.html > > The author, who is specifically oriented toward creating human-level > intelligence, has > > -- articulated an explanation of infant-level physical learning in > terms of his logic-based AI framework, PolyScheme (in which multiple > reasoning algorithms interact using a common predicate-logic language) > > -- then shown how the same mechanisms and representations used for > infant physical learning can be used for language learning > > I first became aware of Nick's PolyScheme approach to AGI when we both > presented at the AAAI workshop on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence > Through Integrated Systems and Research. I think it is a sensible > approach at heard, though as currently articulated it seems a long way > from constituting a fully-developed architecture for AGI. > > -- Ben > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your > subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
