The vision problem is provably impossible, so to go from 2d images to a 3d world representation, your vision system makes assumptions and uses lots of heuristics. It cannot do otherwise. It works well in environments resembling that of ancestral adaptation. it makes mistakes (optical illusions) elsewhere.
Why should anyone think that more abstract cognition was any different? We (and any AGI) are forced to use heuristics to interpret the world in terms of abstract models. Not only is the eduction of an abstract world model necessarily heuristic, but it's computationally expensive, so there will be time-saving heuristics as well as world-assumption ones. 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=e9e40a7e
