Thanks everybody. That gives me a general feel for the status of time theory in OpenCog, but I also need to examine the links. Thanks for the links.
Personally I agree that it's possible that time can be learned along with the rest of common sense, and not structured into the architecture... so emergent. I tend to be in the camp myself that there is probably a finite set of invariant first principles (such as time, causality, and other such things found under the heading of metaphysics) that can be built in at the outset. Both approaches seem possible. Thanks On Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 12:45:02 AM UTC-8 linas wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 11:40 PM Nil Geisweiller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 2/3/22 04:15, Linas Vepstas wrote: >> > I've one comment about time and temporal theory, and I suspect you'll >> > hate it. I strongly believe that an AGI system must learn about time, >> > (and how to reason about events in time) instead of having it >> hard-coded >> > into it. Likewise, it must learn "common sense", and only after that, >> > can it learn about rationality and reasoning. Thus, I spend all my >> > effort on learning; I expect it to (eventually) learn common sense and >> > how to reason about time. This is why I (personally) don't work on any >> > explicit theories of time. >> >> It's probably true in theory, though in practice it helps to have >> readily available temporal representations/rules/procedures. >> > > I think I know how to make it work in practice, but my ideas on this > remain very speculative, and at the current rate of progress, will remain > so into the foreseeable future. I will try to write them up in a paper, > because why not. Everyone else is doing it :-) > > -- linas > -- > Patrick: Are they laughing at us? > Sponge Bob: No, Patrick, they are laughing next to us. > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/4efb7c44-7bf8-420b-aa46-802635591629n%40googlegroups.com.
