Oops I forgot the URL http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~girard/0.pdf its from 2001
I suspect that there are later, more approachable/readable intros to the topic from other authors. The wikipedia coverage sucks, though. --linas On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Linas Vepstas <linasveps...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kind-of off-topic, and I've read only about 5 pages so far, but: > > Girard introduces the concept of "Loci" (kind-of-like memory pointers) > in Locus Solum whose subtitle is "from the rules of logic to the logic > of rules". > > Insofar was PLN is about rules that capture logic, and the URE is > something that applies rules, its worth understanding what kind of > logic applies to the URE itself. I think Girard has a partial answer > to this, unfortunately, its not written at an easy-to-grasp level. > > --linas > > > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:33 AM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: >> Some discussion on whether inference trails are needed or not occurred >> on the Open-NARS email list .. pasting one of my mails here as it >> seems relevant... >> >> >> *** >> Although -- we still do have inference trails in PLN, and we also >> sometimes go beyond that and use an auxiliary Atomspace to store the >> whole inference digraph that gave rise to a given truth-value >> update... (in which case revision can make a better stab at using >> inference history to account for dependencies) >> >> So unfortunately I think the answer is that sometimes trails (or more >> complex inference history structures) are what you want, whereas other >> times you can do without them and let the circular multiple-counting >> of evidence kinda come out in the wash... >> >> Crudely, I feel that large-scale low-accuracy inference ---- like in >> perception processing, or "unconscious" episodic memory recollection, >> etc. --- can get by with the "comes out in the wash" approach ... >> whereas focused precise deliberative reasoning has got to use trails >> or something more sophisticated >> >> I would conjecture that the brain's trail-like mechanisms exist via >> the cortex-hippocampus interface, and thus are only invoked for >> inferences where working memory plays a major role ... not for the >> vast mass of "long-term memory only" background "unconscious" >> inferences.. >> >> -- Ben >> *** >> >> -- >> Ben Goertzel, PhD >> http://goertzel.org >> >> “I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction >> everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don’t >> polish the brass on the bandwagon.” – V. S. Ramachandran >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "opencog" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBc2PzT_WA0J%2Bbr8dQ4zcsTpbKv%3Dy3%3DVY56XUi29bBKZ2w%40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA35L0ZNPLPVhjXVC99GsRyuS3P%3D87MLhLhgabXw0PJOXmQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
