Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyway, I agree with you that formal logical rules and inference are not the
end-all of AGI and are not the right tool for handling visual imagination or
motor learning. But I do think they have an important role to play even so.
-- Ben G
Well, pure closed logic alone is not the right tool for visual imagination, but
the use of category and substitution into various contexts is. This means that
these symbolic cut and paste methods along with blends, morphs, mapping and the
like can be used as references from symbols which can be used o simplify the
representation and integration of complex scenes (in a more general sense of
images) and so on. Because categorical substitution is so computery it means
that the generation of the imagination is probably one of the simplest parts of
the problem. These symbolic references could be used logically (inductive
logic) by associating certain combinations and certain kinds of combinations
with, say, effective results. Of course the more serious problems, how can the
program define what constitutes an effective result in a reasonable way, how to
integrate separate ideas in complex ways appropriately, how to incorporate
reason effectively and how these imaginative
processes can be integrated with empirical methods and cross analysis are
still major complications that no one has seemed to master.
Jim Bromer
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