On 3/5/2019 4:15 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote:
the newly transcribed Bedrock manuscript concerning the role of subjects and predicates in the Bedrock as contrasted with the Artificial Intelligent Interpretations of John Sowa.
There is much more to say about the Bedrock, but I just wanted to make one point clear: My father was a chemical engineer, and I started to call water H2O before I was in Kindergarten. I memorized the periodic table, and I loved organic chemistry. But I decided to major in math because it was easier than spending days and nights in a lab. I did not major in AI because I thought it was "flaky". The primary reason why I started to work on AI was that I was more interested in linguistics and logic, I was working at IBM, and AI enabled me to do something with computers that combined linguistics and logic. Like CSP, my interests in organic chemistry led me to graphs for representing logic. The chemists have also done more computational work on processing very large collections of very large graphs than most people working in AI. That is an important theoretical and computational convergence. But I also realize that analogies that may be useful as inspiration, frequently break down when you push them too far. When you get down to the details, logical graphs and chemical graphs diverge in more ways than they converges. For example, I have published many articles with a colleague, Arun Majumdar. Arun had been doing graduate work in organic chemistry and almost died from a project with hexavalent chromium. That's when he decided it was safer to compute graphs than to synthesize them. John
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