... I have to take exception to JC's complaint here. As a complicated subject is better understood, more details become apparent. The new understanding of...
... groups@...> wrote: Re: Stuart K & The Non-Algorithmic Mind ... Perhaps "causal power" was a term that just confused me, I don't claim to be the sharpest...
... wrote: Re: [ai-philosophy] Re: Stuart K & The Non-Algorithmic Min ... The meaning of a word can of course change with context. The general meaning is not...
... I have no problem with this kind of work, but this presentation is VERY loose on its language. http://www.phil.cmu.edu/summerschool/ Causal and Statistical...
... With respect to our choice of using the phrase "causal powers" personally, I don't care for this term. I tend think it belongs within the same category of...
UMM: Universal Minsky Machine: God comes to Marvin: "Marvin, run this program for me. I think it's a pretty neat idea for an AGI." Marvin: "Nah, it'll never...
... MXM: Runs the program but not very well, and you know it will stop, if only when you pull the plug, but it promises to do better with the next service...
... I'll point out Aristotle may have had the right of it on this one issue, that there is only one causal power in the universe. So, maybe we should find...
... Of all of them, certainly this one is AI complete. The first step to writing the program is certainly to dream that it can be written. Consider a Quine...
... Well that is amazing! You started with a term, "causal powers", which you said had "no explanatory value" and then -just by redefining it- you discovered...
... Not exactly. Assuming we are discussing some *concept*, *idea*, or *belief*. We must choose some labels which best expresses the concepts in messages ...
... <john_j_gagne@...> wrote: Assuming we are discussing some *concept*, *idea*, or *belief*. We must choose some labels which best expresses the concepts in...
... Yes, but those terms maybe don't mean the same thing (or close enough to "the same thing") to me as they do to you (using "you" and "I" only as examples of...
... label. ... I want to get a better idea how badly I misunderstood what you first said. What is it that the term 'causal powers' is not very helpful in ...
... I read those before, and now that I read them again, I still don't understand what it was that you thought 'causal powers' failed to explain and why you...
Dragged through another couple of chapters this week. The problem is, after a suitable disclaimer, Heil nonetheless dives into a modal analysis, wasting...
... Well, with respect to intentionality I gave it my best shot. It should have been clear from that explanation that intentionality must be assumed (not...
... Can you give me an example? Are you speaking of the modal analysis itself? Are you saying that modal analysis (or the product of modal analysis) can not...
... I don't think Joe said that causal powers could be measured. Joe said, "You seem have taken the phrase "causal power" to mean something like phenomenal...
... Why does Yahoo disregard the message nesting after only a few levels? Just in case it's been lost in the fog of Yahoo, here's what I said to JJG about my...
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_logic Kripke's "Naming and Necessity" being for me the locus classicus, of the utter gibberish that results from...
... You're right, Joe didn't *say* that and I did *say* that Joe said that either, I said that Joe *implied* it. JC did *say* it but Joe only implied it. ... ...
... I stand corrected. Sorry JC, I meant nothing beyond making a point of the difference between saying and implying. Your comment simply provided a convenient...
Read Montague's How to Make Decisions says that Marvin's 1954 PHd thesis was in reinforcement learning - after which "he left the discipline." People are...
... That was what I meant: JC amusingly saw that people even claim to be able to measure causal powers. On second thought one can measure some cause and effect...
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