The question I am interested in is: how do you think this can this might be done efficiently and effectively in an AI program given a potentially complex (or complicated) interrelations between things previously encountered or recognized? Jim Bromer
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Valentina Poletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is how I explain it: when we perceive a stimulus, word in this case, it > doesn't reach our brain as a single neuron firing or synapse, but as a set > of already processed neuronal groups or sets of synapses, that each recall > various other memories, concepts and neuronal group. Let me clarify this. In > the example you give, the wod artcop might reach us as a set of stimuli: > art, cop, mediu-sized word, word that begins with a, and so on. All these > connect activate various maps in our memory, and if something substantial is > monitored at some point (going with Richard's theory of the monitor, I don't > have other references of this actually), we form a response. > > This is more obvious in the case of sight - where an image is first broken > into various compontents that are separately elaborated: colours, motion, > edges, shapes, etc. - and then further sent to the upper parts of the memory > where they can be associated to higher level concepts. > > If any of this is not clear let me know, instead of adding me to your > kill-lists ;-P > > Valentina > > > On 7/31/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Vlad: >>> >>> I think Hofstadter's exploration of jumbles ( >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumble ) covers this ground. You don't >>> just recognize the word, you work on trying to connect it to what you >>> know, and if set of letters didn't correspond to any word, you give >>> up. >> >> There's still more to word recognition though than this. How do we decide >> what is and isn't, may or may not be a word? A neologism? What may or may >> not be words from: >> >> cogrough >> dirksilt >> thangthing >> artcop >> coggourd >> cowstock >> >> or "fomlepaung" or whatever? >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> agi >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > A true friend stabs you in the front. - O. Wilde > > Einstein once thought he was wrong; then he discovered he was wrong. > > For every complex problem, there is an answer which is short, simple and > wrong. - H.L. Mencken > ________________________________ > agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
