Though many people assume "reasoning" can only been applied to
"symbolic" or "linguistic" materials, I'm not convinced yet, nor that
there is really a separate "imaginative reasoning" --- at least I
haven't seen a concrete proposal on what it means and why it is
different.
For a simple deduction rule {S --> M, M --> P} |- S --> P, it is
possible that the "symbols" S, M, and P correspond to different
"mental images" in a system, and the rule just shows their relations:
if S is a special type of M, and M is a special type of P, then S is a
special type of P. Whether they are words, images, actions, etc., does
not matter.
Of course there will be modular-specific operations: operations on
visual signal and operations on audio signals are different, but they
can all be handled consistently in procedural inference. We don't have
separate "visual logic" and "audio logic".
If by "imaginative reasoning" you mean "reasoning on imaginative
information", then it is correct to say that few AI system can do it
at the moment, but it is wrong to assume that it cannot be done, or
demand a completely different type of logic.
Pei
Pei
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Pei: What type of reasoning is needed for AI? The major answers are:
>
> > (A): deduction only, (B) multiple types, including deduction,
> > induction, abduction, analogy, etc.
>
> Is it fair to say that current AI involves an absence of imaginative
> reasoning? - reasoning that is conducted more or less exclusively with
> and in images. For example, an animal/ human predicting which way a
> predator/prey/sports opponent will move; a designer redesigning a font (the
> letter T, say), or a chair, or an ipod; a Riemann or a Mandelbrot perceiving
> that geometry can be applied to new kinds or dimensions of form.
>
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