James,
So, you agree that some sort of search must take place before the "feeling of
not knowing" presents itself? Of course, "realizing we don't have a lot of
information" results from some type of a search and not a separate process (at
least you didn't posit any).
Thanks for your comments!
Cheers
Brad
James Ratcliff wrote:
It is fairly simple at that point, we have enough context to have a very
limited domain
world series - baseball
1924
answer is a team,
so we can do a lookup in our database easily enough, or realize that we
really dont have a lot of information about baseball in our mindset.
And for the other one, it would just be a strait term match.
James Ratcliff
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Looking for something...
--- On *Mon, 7/28/08, Brad Paulsen /<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
From: Brad Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [agi] How do we know we don't know?
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 4:12 PM
Jim Bromer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Brad Paulsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> All,
>> What does fomlepung mean?
>>
>> If your immediate (mental) response was "I don't know."
it means you're not
>> a slang-slinging Norwegian. But, how did your brain produce that
"feeling
>> of not knowing"? And, how did it produce that feeling so fast?
>>
>> Your brain may have been able to do a massively-parallel search of
your
>> entire memory and
come up "empty." But, if it does this,
it's subconscious.
>> No one to whom I've presented the above question has reported a
conscious
>> "feeling of searching" before having the conscious feeling
of not knowing.
>>
>> Brad
>
> My guess that initial recognition must be based on the surface
> features of an input. If this is true, then that could suggest that
> our initial recognition reactions are stimulated by distinct
> components (or distinct groupings of components) that are found in the
> surface input data.
> Jim Bromer
>
>
Hmmm. That particular query may not have been the best example since, to a
non-Norwegian speaker, the phonological surface feature of that statement alone
could account for the "feeling of not knowing." In other words, the
word
"fomlepung" just "doesn't sound right." Good point.
But, that may only
explain
how we know we don't know "strange sounding" words.
Let's try another example:
Which team won the 1924 World Series?
Cheers,
Brad
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