Vladimir Nesov wrote:
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. This establishes deep similarity between problem-solving, perception and memory, and poses deliberative reasoning as iterative application of reflexive perception-steps. If you think the question and it gives you an answer, you can act on it. If it doesn't, the context in which you thought the question, deliberative program starting the request, will produce "I don't know..." response. It's probably as simple as that: a higher level of organization, not fundamental to the structure of mind, learned behavior.
Agreed: Hofstadter's Jumbo system was inspirational to me when i read it in 1986/7, and that idea of relaxation is exactly what was behind the descriptions that I gave, earlier in this thread, of systems that tried to do recognition and question answering by constraint relaxation.
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