Re: [opencog-dev] PartitionLink, biological pathways, human bodies, etc.

2017-08-04 Thread Michael Duncan
i actually think an AndLink-like semantics better fits biochemical pathways at a computationally tractable level than partitions in that below the level of a whole organism, where one pathway ends and another begins is largely arbitrary. also, if one link is missing then the whole thing doesn

Re: [opencog-dev] PartitionLink, biological pathways, human bodies, etc.

2017-08-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
Yes! On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 4:07 PM, 'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog wrote: > On 08/03/2017 10:06 AM, Linas Vepstas wrote: >> >> There's also a problem of editing: what if, half-way through, you want to >> change the partition? Can you? should you? should users instead be told that >> a partition,

Re: [opencog-dev] PartitionLink, biological pathways, human bodies, etc.

2017-08-04 Thread 'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog
On 08/03/2017 10:06 AM, Linas Vepstas wrote: There's also a problem of editing: what if, half-way through, you want to change the partition? Can you? should you? should users instead be told that a partition, once-created, is immutable, so you can only create and destroy them? But isn't the s