This discussion seems senseless. You literally said: "No human can remember 10000 of anything whatsoever". Now, you said that words don't belong to the category of "anything whatsoever". Words have meaning, spelling, pronunciation. Each Chinese character has the specific stroke order. There are many other examples of more than 10000 things known by humans (e.g. photostockers can recognize their works from 20000+ portfolios) ... And the specific number doesn't really matter. I'll stop here independent of your answer...
2018-03-17 17:30 GMT+03:00 Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>: > ?? > > 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/CABpRrhzDbQ7RUffbqM10NcbPQSyRdNG6djt2BB0osyWo25FaFg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
