On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > How does Stephen or YKY or anyone else propose to "read between the lines"? > And what are the basic "world models", "scripts", "frames" etc etc. that you > think sufficient to apply in understanding any set of texts, even a > relatively specialised set? > > (Has anyone seriously *tried* understanding passages?) > That's a most thoughtful and germane question! The short answer is no, we're not ready yet to even *try* to tackle understanding passages. Reaching that goal is definitely on the roadmap though, and there's a concrete plan to get there involving learning through vast and varied activities experienced over the course of many years of practically continious residence in numerous virtual worlds. The plan indeed includes the continuous creation, variation and development of mental world-models within an OCP-based mind. Attention allocation and many other mind dynamics (CIMDynamics<http://opencog.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=CIMDynamics>) crucial to this world-modeling faculty must be adequately developed, tested and tuned as a pre-requisite to begin trying to understand passages (and, also to generate and communicate imagined world-models as a human story teller would do; a curious byproduct of an intelligent system that can reason about potential events and scenarios!) NB: help is needed on the OpenCog wiki to better document many of the concepts discussed here and elsewhere, e.g. *Concretely-Implemented Mind Dynamics* (CIMDynamics) requires a MindOntology page explaining it conceptually, in addtion to the existing nuts-and-bolts entry in the OpenCogPrime section. -dave ------------------------------------------- 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=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
