Looking at the moon won't help -- it might be the case that it described a particular appearance that only had a slight resemblance to other blue things (as in "red hair"), for example. There are some rare conditions (high stratospheric dust) which can make the moon look actually blue.
In fact "blue moon" is generally taken to mean, metaphorically, something very rare (or even impossible) or the second full moon in a given month (which happens about every two-and-a-half years on the average). "ask someone" is of course what human kids do a lot of. An AI could do this, or look it up in Wikipedia, or the like. All of which are heuristics to reduce the ambiguity/generality in the information stream. The question is do enough heuristics make an autogenous AI or is there something more fundamental to its structure? On Wednesday 20 February 2008 12:27:59 pm, Ben Goertzel wrote: > The trick to understanding "once in a blue moon" is to either > > -- look at the moon > > or > > -- ask someone > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
