On 10/4/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007 11:52:01 am, Vladimir Nesov wrote: > > Analogy-making can be reformulated as other problems, so even if it's > > not named this way it's still associated with many approaches to > > learning. Recalling relevant knowledge is about the same thing as > > analogy-making, and in lifelong learning almost all knowledge comes > > from past experience, so perception of current scene consists of > > recalling refined elements of this experience. > > > > So, could you elucidate on why do you specifically address analogy-making? > > If I have the primitive "make an analogy between A and B" I can use it as a > subroutine in "recall the memory that makes the best analogy to X" and it > seems simpler than trying to do it the other way around. >
Somewhat, but requirement to search in huge long term memory can be important for algorithm choice. Apart from this use case, you may want to find recurring patterns within a given scene, which is equivalent to finding the best analogy to one part of the scene in the rest of the scene (and with right representation you don't even need to do that). Anyway, my point was not that view on analogy-making as recall is 'better', but that analogy-making problem lives in that incarnation, so absence of explicitly stated analogy-making research doesn't mean that problem is neglected. -- Vladimir Nesov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=50115516-e0d3df
