Cf: Animated Logical Graphs • 81 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/08/26/animated-logical-graphs-81/
Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • A Negative Comment On Negations https://rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com/2021/08/24/a-negative-comment-on-negations/ Minsky and Papert's “Perceptrons” was the work that nudged me over the limen from gestalt psychology, psychophysics, relational biology, etc. and made me believe AI could fly. I later found out a lot of people thought it had thrown cold water on the subject but that was not my sense of it. The real reason Rosenblatt's perceptrons short-shrift XOR and EQ among the sixteen boolean functions on two variables is the adoption of a particular role for neurons in the activity of the brain and a particular model of how neurons serve computation, namely, as threshold activation devices. It is as if we tried to do mathematics using only the inequality “ ≤ ” instead of using equations. Sure, you can circumlocute it, but why? Of course, x ≤ y for boolean variables x, y is equivalent to x ⇒ y so this fits right in with the weakness of implicational inference compared to equational inference rules. But there are other models for the role neurons play in the activity of the brain and the work they do in computation. Regards, Jon
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