Hi Linas,

Yes your intuition is right. 

Thank you for your clarification. 

What is the core meta-language that is OpenCog into which PLN can be 
loaded. 

Daniel



On Thursday, 27 April 2017 05:42:02 UTC+3, linas wrote:
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>
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> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Daniel Gross <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> Hi Linas, 
>>
>> I guess it would be good to differentiate between the KR architecture and 
>> the language. Would be great if there exists some kind of comparison of the 
>> open cog language to other comparable KR languages. 
>>
>
> I don't quite understand.  However, if I were to take a guess at the 
> intent.
>
> opencog allows you to design your own KR language; it doesn't much care, 
> it provides a set of tools. These include a data store, a rule engine with 
> backward and forward chainers, a pattern matcher, a pattern miner.
>
> Opencog does come with a default "KR language", PLN -- its described in 
> multiple PLN books.  But if you don't like PLN, you can create your own KR 
> language. All the parts are there.  
>
> The "cognitive architecture" is something you'd layer on top of the KR 
> language (and/or on top of various neural nets, and/or on top of various 
> learning algorithms, etc).
>
> opencog does not have a particularly firm "architecture" per se; we 
> experiment and try to make things work, and learn from that. Ben would say 
> that there is an architecture, it just hasn't been implemented yet.  
> There's a lot to do, we're only getting started.
>
> --linas
>
>>
>> Then there are cognitive architectures, which can be compared. I think 
>> Ben has a number of architectures compared in his book. 
>>
>> i guess one then needs a kind of "composite" -- what an 
>> architecture+language can do, since an architecture likely takes advantage 
>> of the language features. 
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:54:11 UTC+3, linas wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Nageen Naeem <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> OpenCog didn't shift to java from c++?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You are welcome to study https://github.com/opencog for the source 
>>> languages used.
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Thanks for defining pros and cons if there is any paper on comparison 
>>>> with other architecture kindly recommend me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ben has written multiple books on the archtiecture in general.  The wiki 
>>> describes particular choices.
>>>
>>> I am not aware of any other (knowledge-representation) architectures 
>>> that can do what the atomspace can do.  So I'm not sure what you want to 
>>> compare against. Triplestore? various actionscripts? Prolog? 
>>>
>>> --linas 
>>>  
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 9:36:04 PM UTC+5, Ben Goertzel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> OpenCog did not shift from Java to C++, it was always C++ 
>>>>>
>>>>> The advantage of Atomspace is that it allows fine-grained semantic 
>>>>> representations of all forms of knowledge in a common framework.  The 
>>>>> disadvantage is, this makes things complicated.   The other advantage 
>>>>> is, this fine-grained representation makes data amenable to multiple 
>>>>> AI algorithms, including ones that can work together synergetically 
>>>>>
>>>>> ben 
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Nageen Naeem <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote: 
>>>>> > Hey, 
>>>>> > I'm searching for pros and cons for using atomspace for knowledge 
>>>>> > representation but didn't get any full-fledged answer related to it. 
>>>>> what 
>>>>> > are the pros and cons of using atomspace and why OpenCog shifted to 
>>>>> java 
>>>>> > from c++ what are reasons behind it? 
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