Edward You talk about the Cohen article I quoted as perhaps leading to a
major
paradigm shift, but actually much of its central thrust is similar to
ideas that have been around for decades. Cohens gists are surprisingly
similar to the scripts Schank was talking about circa 1980.
Josh: And his "static image schemas" are Minsky's frames.
No doubt. But image schemas, as used by the school of
Lakoff/Johnson/Turner/Fauconnier, are definitely a significant step towards
a major paradigm shift in cognitive science - are very influential in
cognitive linguistics, have helped found cognitive semantics - and are
backed by an evergrowing body of experimental science. So that's why I was
just a little (and definitely no more) excited by seeing them being used in
AGI, however inadequately. I had already casually predicted elsewhere that
they would be influential, and I think you'll see more of them. Neither
Minsky nor any other AGI person, to my knowledge, uses image schemas as set
out by Mark Johnson in "The Body in the Mind" - or could do, if my
understanding is correct, on digital computers.
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