I believe this thread has run way past its useful course, and suggest we kill it.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA365kv64%2Beov7xEawg2-%2B5ppNFWtuA46GAojDaRnu6L9kw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Cassio Pennachin -- 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/CADwLDSQrwJwkx4KEVumra4piovOK-tJXS1FLAZax1_CwekAS_g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
