On 10/18/2008 9:27 AM, Mike Tintner wrote:
What rational computers can't do is find similarities between disparate, irregular objects - via fluid transformation - the essence of imagination.
So you don't believe that this is possible by finding combinations of abstract shapes (lines, squares, circles, etc.) within a scene and mapping or spatially transforming those shapes? This was my understanding of how human vision works. I had thought that was fairly well established, but it's not my area -- personally, I'm betting that a purely symbolic approach is workable.
And I may be missing the importance of your emphasis on "fluid." I generally find that people think in more discrete jumps -- for example, the jump to Italy being a boot, rather than a series of smaller transformational steps from the map to the abstraction.
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