On Saturday 28 April 2007 09:02, Benjamin Goertzel wrote: > In other words: I became convinced that in the developmental approach, if > you want to take the human child language learning metaphor at all > seriously, you need to go beyond pure language learning and take an > experientially grounded approach.
Yes and no. I think it's possible for an appropriately structured formal system to support a fairly substantial discourse based entirely on its "noumena", e.g. write a system that you can talk to about plane geometry, e.g. "Construct a normal to line A through point P" "OK" "Now construct another one" "I can't find a distinct one" "What do you conjecture?" "That there is only one normal through any given point" However, in practice, I agree with Ben. The key lack in SHRDLU was that it couldn't extend its model (technically, it was a purely noumenal agent as in the above). To learn and extend your model, which children do as part and parcel of learning language, you *do* need phenomenal input. Josh ----- 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
