RE: [agi] Multiverse alternative to disambiguation

2015-02-23 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI
I think, you're quite correct. But do not reject disambiguity altogether, for it exists as part of the whole, which serves to enlighten us. Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:46:16 -0800 Subject: [agi] Multiverse alternative to disambiguation From: a...@listbox.com To: a...@listbox.com Hi all, It daw

[agi] Multiverse alternative to disambiguation

2015-02-23 Thread Steve Richfield via AGI
Hi all, It dawned on me that disambiguation might be a really bad idea. Instead, when dealing with the uncertain meaning of a passage, suppose the passage were simply accepted for ALL of its possible meanings. Every pronoun could be ANY of the available nouns, etc. Of course most of the "possible"

RE: [agi] Non Conventional Integration of Otherwise Familiar Ideas Can Help You

2015-02-23 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI
Thanks Jim A good reminder on subjectivity. The essence then, is that we should maybe have in our thought "toolkit" the widest and narrowest perspectives we could hold on relativism, and from there emerge a logical approach best suited to a particular problem. Personally, how I understand the

[agi] Non Conventional Integration of Otherwise Familiar Ideas Can Help You

2015-02-23 Thread Jim Bromer via AGI
We programmers can become habituated in our thinking about mundane things like variables and procedural methods in programming. This thinking would not be a problem if we were able to keep an open mind when we need to develop ideas in special ways but the problem is that a flexibility of mind tends

RE: [agi] Couple thoughts

2015-02-23 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI
How about we discuss how to build an adaptive, complex machine? Proposed definition: An adaptive, complex machine would have the ability to learn from its installable knowledge base and environmental experiences and be able to consistently apply functional evidence of this learning in order to s