On 4/20/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We cant understand english because we dont have enough knowledge, we dont have enough knowledge because we cant understand english.
No, only the first part of that is true. The reason computers don't have enough knowledge isn't because they don't understand English, it's because they lack the data, the machinery, the algorithms. Knowledge of the things that need to be known - about space and time, matter and energy, air and water, warmth and cold, profit and loss, health and sickness, etc etc - is not derived from English; it is derived from algorithms, machinery operating in the real world and data derived therefrom, etc, that evolution programmed into us and we must in turn program into our computers. Understanding of English (as opposed to programs like Eliza, Zork, Microsoft Word, Google, that operate on English without understanding it) comes afterwards. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
