Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
On Nov 30, 2007 7:57 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben: It seems to take tots a damn lot of trials to learn basic skills
Sure. My point is partly that human learning must be pretty quantifiable in
terms of number of times a given action is practised,
Definitely NOT ... it's very hard to quantify when a child is
practicing crawling
versus just rehearsing the component arm/leg movements, wiggling around,
etc. I can imagine that quantifying this sort of thing in a really meaningful
way must be fairly difficult...
& I wonder whether
anyone's counting.
I agree it's a worthwhile effort, though. I don't think anyone has counted this
sort of thing because it would require constant surveillance of the child.
Somebody is doing this. Sorry, I can't remember the reference. They
are keeping a complete surveillance record, I believe.
Similar things have been done in the past.
The problem is, as you say, counting "events" of significance. Nobody
really knows what to look for until after they have begun to understand
how the system works, and I am not convinced that the people doing this
research would count the things of interest to me.
Richard Loosemore
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