This thread has gone a weird-ass direction... Of course an adult human knows way more than 10K things but I don't even have time just now to scroll up and see how the conversation got here !!!
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote: > ?? > > I'm pretty sure I know a lot more than 10000 words. That is not at all > comparable to knowing 10000 things. Knowing 20000 words is comparable to > knowing maybe 500 things. How, exactly, are you measuring knowledge? > > --linas > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Alexey Potapov <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> No human can remember 10000 of anything whatsoever. The human brain is >>> just simply not that big. >> >> >> Please, stop making such stupid claims. This is so obviously wrong that >> I'm not sure if there is any sense to argue. "No human", "10000 of >> anything", "not that big"??? I will not refer to eidetic memory possessed >> also by some chess players... Just consider words. Normally, people use few >> thousands words, but writers use several tens thousands. Chinese writers can >> use more than 10000. Polyglots can speak more than 10 languages up to (or >> more than) 1000 in which. Not sure how exactly much foreign words they can >> remember, but even if it is just several thousands, it doesn't make a >> principal difference. So, can't humans remember 10000 words?.. > > > > > -- > cassette tapes - analog TV - film cameras - you > > -- > 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/CAHrUA370iHqyqjsGLJQBU9BSMq%3Dgk4tLRGmEhT2u65NAt7nP%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits.... In the province of connected minds, what the network believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits." -- John Lilly -- 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/CACYTDBfVYuNtVynNwbsDJFHFLQ7t5sR45Lc00ab-MxPb1_Rx0A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
