RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Tony Lofthouse
Hi, Both Moshe and Ben have touched on as aspect of this discussion that I have been thinking about for some time. Moshe said, "I don't think that nodes+links are very good for reasoning about vision and space..." and Ben responded "I'll say now that neurons are basically nodes and synapses are b

[agi] on the nature of human verses artificial intelligence

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Prueitt
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RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Prueitt
Just to clarify: Ben said: "However, I'll say now that neurons are basically nodes and synapses are basically links, so it's clear that a node-link data structure in itself isn't way off..." The point that Pribram and other similar minded cognitive neuroscientists make is that the neuron is NOT

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
Moshe, Here is a response to your question on how to represent visual information in an AGI system ... followed by some more general comments on incorporating vision in early-stage AGI systems... Computer vision is not something I anticipate working on in the next couple years, but it's still

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
I typed > A) PixelInstanceNodes, whose TruthValues represents stimulus... and whose > location [if needed] is represented via relations like > > EvaluationLink location P (5,7) It should have been EvaluationLink location (P ,(5,7)) since EvaluationLinks take two argument, the first one a predi

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
Tony Lofthouse wrote: > Is there any value in having nodes located in a virtual n-dimensional > space? > > One of the advantages that artificial systems have over biological > systems is that the cost of long distance links/synapses is no more > expensive that short distance connections. (Where c

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
Paul Prueitt wrote: > The point that Pribram and other similar minded cognitive neuroscientists > make is that the neuron is NOT the processing unit. It is the receptive > fields that form a sensor array and then it is neuronal assembles and > regional functional units (such as frontal lobes).

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread James Rogers
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 01:12, Tony Lofthouse wrote: > > In a biological brain closely associated neurons are 'generally' close > to each other physically. Whilst, artificial nodes and links are > generally not. > > For me this seems to lose a whole layer of information. The patterns > related to

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 01:12, Tony Lofthouse wrote: > > > > In a biological brain closely associated neurons are 'generally' close > > to each other physically. Whilst, artificial nodes and links are > > generally not. > > > > For me this seems to lose a whole layer of information. The patterns

[agi] META: archiving of list messages

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
A few people have asked me offline about archiving of agi list messages I set this up via mail-archive.com, but unfortunately, I set it up a little late, it missed the first few messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/agi%40v2.listbox.com/ A full archive is kept internally at www.listbox.com, but

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
Paul, I'd be curious if you could comment on how your concept of "process compartments" http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/pch.htm applied to computer vision in an AGI context... ben --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread James Rogers
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 11:24, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > But, a connection topology that tends to have a lot of local connections is > not the same as one that really maps a 2D or 3D space, with the precision > desired for processing spatial input data... For us, even though the accumulated data str

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
> But that ignores another point worth mentioning, which is most sensory > data the human brain works with is one-dimensional even though we don't > think of it that way. Audio, for example, is perceived as a > one-dimensional signal that is analyzed for spatial cues at a higher > level. It's t

RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: Modal or Amodal?

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Prueitt
I know, but this is a long story. grin. I wish it where easier to tell this story. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-agi@;v2.listbox.com]On Behalf Of Ben Goertzel Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [agi] Spatial Reasoning: M