... I didn't say it *works*, I'm just defending him against the charge that he was a black-box behaviorist. Besides poverty of stimulus, Chomsky drove a wedge...
... I've seen a lot of people who just started singing. There is poverty of stimulus, nobody really told them what voices to make and what voices not to make,...
... constructions/sentence ... typically ... The step 2 is weak as you say. However, I see the logical conclusion just as troublesome. Because that seems to...
Hi Pei, I'm not extensively familiar with NARS (I have read some of your papers but this was many, many years ago). Let me try to understand what you proposed....
... No, it actually doesn't assume behaviorist learning...I fail to see how you can learn something that you've never been exposed to. And it seems pretty ...
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Forgot to mention... The point I made in my other msg about the length of the genome and the complexity of the things it encodes for is made very well by Gary...
Fred Mailhot
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... There is something that has been missed. Until Montague's extensive paper on the semantics of quantifiers in natural language, the logical semantics...
... Birth ... In fact, I found it a bad argument. It is not easy to tell it, but let me say that you can't compress things indefinitely, and the thing ...
... Could you elaborate on #2 and #3? After reading a strain of Eastern philosophy and certain thinkers like Aldous Huxley I looked at my first son and...
... I'm just running out, so I'll comment more later on today... ... There are many generative linguists who argue that exactly this kind of maturational...
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... The missing theory seems to be how we link learned behavior to physical changes. There's been enough research done since Whorf-Sapir on language to...
Pursuing Artificial Intelligence is to cause the production of motor acts by a machine.This involves, in some sense, the simulation of an animal nervous system...
Hi Sergio Navega, Your questions are too serious to be answered here --- each of them deserves a detailed explanation. I don't have the time to provide the ...
Pursuing Artificial Intelligence is to cause the production of motor acts by a machine.This involves, in some sense, the simulation of an animal nervous system...
We cannot really blame Chomsky for the misapplication of transformational grammars to semantics of thought. I do not believe he has ever advocated such usage...
... Chomskian theories have been applied to how birds learn to sing as well. ... There are petabytes of literature on this, starting with Chomsky himself. J....
While I'm disappointed that more of you don't share my interest in the study of simple sensors, I hope you don't mind that I share them anyway. I can only say...
Hi Pei, I agree entirely with your comments, I was also worried at starting a detailed discussion of these points, it would be too time consuming. Please send...
In the view of the physiologist, Chomsky in debate, the virtuoso musician in concert, and the ballerina on stage, are exactly the same: these are instances of...
I want to clarify one aspect of a previous message, regarding semantics. I wondered if we'd missed anything, if indeed Chomsky's influence over the past forty...
Having seen Asimo's show twice (and I agree about the "stupid little" perjorative adjectives you applied to that sort of robot) I came away feeling that, in...
For those interested in the current threads on language ... Carl Zimmer, in his excellent blog on evolutionary science, The Loom, has just written a summary of...
jrstern wrote: [snip] ... What Chomsky did, inadvertently, was force a rethink of semantics, in part because of the quixotic generative semantics movement...
... With Jackendoff, I agree in only one point: that compositional semantics is not a complete explanation. Other than that his ideas do not seem to contain...
... This is strange, but then you mean to say that an inductive learner always makes a huge amount of mistakes, which runs counter to the idea of induction. I...
Jud, I see no purpose in the denial of the tautology that what exists constitutes existence. The point, you are making, I think, is that what exists is not...
... The possibilities of discovery for an intelligent mind are uncountable. The advantages of discovering a new rule (or thought) is that an individual may...
... "(a) Every AI model I've seen requires input (which is defined as little more than content external to the system). It modifies the system state" ... "So...
... What I mean is that they are symbols only to us -- from our perspective as engineers, users, or commentators. We mentally "imbue" physics with more...
I am quite unsatisfied that solely the interpretation below would lead anything groundbraking in the realm. Am I too wrong to expect a more sound explanation...
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