On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Eric Baum wrote:
New Book:
What is Thought?
Eric B. Baum
What a great book.
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Thanks Bill for the Eric Baum reference.
Deep thinker that I am, I've just read the book review on Amazon and
that has orientated me to some of the key ideas in the book (I hope!) so
I'm happy to start speculating without having actually read the book.
(See the review below.)
It seems
Philip,
I have
mixed feelings on this issue (filling an AI mind with knowledge from
DB's).
I'd
prefer to start with a tabula rasa AI and have it learn everything via
sensorimotor experience -- and only LATER experiment with feeding DB knowledge
directly into its knowledge-store
It seems that Baum is arguing that biological minds are amazingly quick
at making sense of the world because, as a result of evolution, the
structure of the brain is set up with inbuilt limitations/assumptions
based on likely possibilities in the real world - thus cutting out vast
areas for
