Vladimir,
No I'm sure the problem-solving isn't all down to recasting in terms of
physical models. But can you think of a scientific problem area, where such
recasting isn't involved?
(Very tangentially, what comes to my mind is chess. I'm confident that human
problemsolving here - and the ability to search through only scores as
opposed to billions of chessboard scenarios to arrive at moves - depends
on physical models, and is an ahem graphic illustration of the very
different ways in which current computers and a true general intelligence
think).
Vladimir: These 'recastings' of problems are essentially inference steps,
where
each step is evident and is performed by trained expert's intuition.
Sequence of such simple steps can constitute complex inference which
leads to solution of complex problem. This recasting isn't necessarily
related to physical common sense, even though each intermediate
representation can be represented as spatially-temporal construction
by virtue of being representable by frame graphs evolving over time,
which does not reflect the rules of this evolution (which are the
essence of inference which is being performed).
On 10/11/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just to underline my point about the common sense foundations of logic
and
general intelligence - I came across this from : Education & Learning to
Think by Lauren B Resnick - (and a section entitled "General Reasoning -
Improving Intelligence).
"Recent research in science problem solving shows that experts do not
respond to problems as they are presented - writing equations for every
relationship described and then using routine procedures for manipulating
equations.Instead they reinterpret the problems, recasting them in terms
of
general scientific principles until the solutions become almost
self-evident."
He points out that the same principles apply to virtually all subjects in
the curriculum. I would suggest that those experts are recasting problems
principally in terms of physical common sense models. NARS, it seems to
me,
"responds to problems as they are presented."
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