List: I wish to thank John for his truly remarkable comments (below).
>From your personal history, John, and the extra-ordinarily professional >credentials of both you and your esteemed colleague, and your extensive >training and experience in multiple disciplines, I congratulate you, on your >highly successful career and your extraordinary high professional statue at >IBM and elsewhere. It has been a special pleasure for me to learn so much >from you. It is possible, I suppose, that your comments below may be relevant to what I wrote, but it is not so clear, How? As for myself, I am just a simple farm boy, lost in a world that I know almost nothing about. Additionally, I am handicapped by being a very slow learner and a very weak writer. Neither of my parents went to college, I was orphaned at age 20, basically homeless and penniless; I struggled for over a decade just to earn my way through college. I’m certainly NOT in your league, John. List-readers, please consider the content of John's message (below) when you interpret what I wrote. In the spirit of inquiry, it is possible that John message is of very substantial importance with respect to the Bedrocks Beneath Pragmaticism; you will have to judge for yourselves. Nevertheless, I stand by what I wrote earlier today. I will probably extend my remarks because the manuscript is very relevant to several discussions. Perhaps, John, you would like to comment, from your knowledge of AI and Organic Chemistry, on the content of what I wrote? Cheers Jerry Headwater House Little Falls, MN > On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:56 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] > . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] > with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > > > >
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