Mike, What is the evidence, if any, that it would be difficult for a sophisticated Novamente-like AGI to switch domains?
In fact, much of valuable AGI thinking would involve patterns and mental behaviors that extended across different domains. Human natural language understanding is believed to use multiple domains of knowledge in the brain when necessary, such as visual imagination, to help in understanding what is being said or what is to be said. The OpenCog WikiBook describes multiple procedures for controlling, and automatically learning to control inference, activation, and procedure execution. This could be used to accomplish sophisticated interaction of knowledge from different domains, much as the human brain does. Brain studies conducted by Wolf Singer indicate that the brain synchronies can be used to interconnect portions of the brain with different areas of expertise when performing a job that requires one of those areas to tune into information coming from the other. It would be easy to make an AGI do something equivalent. In fact, in routine tasks, the synchronies are often set up in advance of there being an activation in some of the regions connected by them, because the brain has learned from prior inferencing patterns to expect such activations to arise given the task being performed. Ed Porter ------------------------------------------- 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=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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