Happy New Year to all the group! Hi JC: I think your post below was quite good! ... That's one way to look at it. A good way as for our purposes. Mostly, I...
Michael, And the explanation in prosaic English of your stimulating "information dynamics" "split brain" theory of mind is...? ("Information dynamics"? That's...
Good one. :) And this one is for Dr. Minsky: Every mind a whirling centrifuge Our thoughts pondered by contained multitudes One comprised of a mass of...
Simulation/copy/model whatever... people seem to use these words in a variety of ways to make whatever argument they fancy, and forget that the words have...
... to make whatever argument they fancy, and forget that the words have pretty broad definitions. ... grass wet. I might control the sprinklers with a...
... I don't like this "explanation" because it seems to hinge on a Platonist misunderstanding of what computation is! So I can't really get from your (false)...
... Bill has given a rather wonderful explanation. Computational Learning Theory has developed well enough for us to understand what machines can learn....
Bill, Well, respect for trying. But, as I pointed out in a fairly recent post, you guys typically make generalisations without ever trying to apply them to...
Eray: Clearly, Mike has no clue about the relevant journals. Much of the strong AI research I talked about models universal learning, Mike should really try to...
Let me put the issue in plain English for you. What you guys are suggesting is that there is a formula for solving the following creative problems - creating...
... Pffff, these are design problems, four of them artistic designs, and one an engineering design, and have nothing to do with "unknown". Automated design is...
... No. Consider yourself unbefuddled. You having trouble balancing your checkbook? ... There are also no things on this planet that are not made of atoms. ...
... Well, at least we now know that Mike is clueless as to what he is talking about. Let him demonstrate a single uncomputable function on *any* textbook and I...
I wish there were an edit or delete button. Obviously a post such as my sleepy "forget it" impulse of a bit earlier this morning serves no useful purpose... I...
... various distinguishable events and combinations of events occur. ... show you for example that unknown events A and B together "here" strongly suggest that...
... various distinguishable events and combinations of events occur. ... <snipped detail> ... that a brute force attempt to collect such information will be...
... Yes, excellent! ... Well, now that's quite a controversial statement. Some have argued that we lack nothing we don't already have... That the problem lies ...
Joe:what does that mean? An infinite amount of time and resources? This is a typical AI-inspired dream state: if we can utter it then it must be computable....
Eray:Pffff, these are design problems, four of them artistic designs, and one an engineering design, and have nothing to do with "unknown". Automated design is...
... psychology and philosophy of creativity, because the above remark shows no awareness of the "bisociative" nature of creativity, pace Koestler - which is...
MT:Correct my befuddled mathematics - but aren't most mathematical ... Eray: Well, at least we now know that Mike is clueless as to what he is talking...
Those are not uncomputable, they are known as semi-computable. Show a single uncomputable function on any textbook. How hard would that be? Anyway, the point...
To be specific, halting problem is undecidable, but that doesn't mean it is uncomputable..... Anyway, the halting problem in all its glory is much like the God...
On Fri Jan 4, 2008 2:49 am, Mike Tinter wrote in ai-philosophy: MT>> ... Functions definable by an algorithm are called computable functions. ... Fundamental...