On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 11:00 PM, Alexey Potapov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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... > Those are all incredibly bad examples. They are nonsense examples. Knowing words or recognizing images is not even vaguely close to knowing something. You are vastly over-estimating how smart humans are by a factor of 10 if not 100. --linas > > 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 >> > > -- 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/CAHrUA365kv64%2Beov7xEawg2-%2B5ppNFWtuA46GAojDaRnu6L9kw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
