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
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"
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
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
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