On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Daniel Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
> so i wonder where is the meaning in this kind of machine . -- if the > semantic graph is actually constructed out of the machine learned parse of > natural language text without a predefined mapping to a semantic graph > (which is what ones want to build in the first place). > > I think this is essentially what confuses me -- if i managed to explain it > correctly ... . > I claim that there is nothing more to meaning than the semantic graph. It's all there is, and that's that. The turtle example: does the word "turtle" mean anything more than what you could ever say about it? Where, by "saying", I mean: twittering, blogging, writing a book, showing a photo, singing a song, dancing, or creating an architectural work? What more could "turtle" mean, if it is not definable in one of these expressions? Post-modern literary critics have already deconstructed "meaning" for holy saints and seers: yes, you can go up into the mountains, hallucinate, have an epiphany, talk to god, and carve two stone tablets with ten rules that attempt to describe "turtleness" and utterly fail to capture the true core nature of that epiphany. So, yes, "true knowledge" is locked up inside of us, and ultimately, we have no practical technology by which we can express our individual, personal, inner understanding of "turtle" to outsiders. Bummer. My understanding of "turtle" is forever locked away in my brain, at least until we have better MRI machines. But I accept that a narrative of words and pictures is a reasonable facsimile, expression thereof. --linas -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/CAHrUA37GVRtLmY0BmYLyCbGHPRBHz1yY7yaFyozJo2%3DaXU3nxg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
