On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> This thread has gone a weird-ass direction... > > Of course an adult human knows way more than 10K things but I don't > Oh come on Ben. Of course a single human cannot know that much. That's an absurdity. Humans are stupid. --linas > 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. > -- 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/CAHrUA34iYs9Fdx1X8eGmDj_tG8QXdQKXTzaQZLYi9Eni1OGCqA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
