... I disagree. The predictive understanding is understanding in and of itself. ... I disagree with this definition of understanding. Whatever understanding ...
... Eray, I largely concur with your prior comments, and I also have some minor quibbles with Pierre's assertions (hi, Pierre!). I can find quite a lot of ways...
... What I suspect is that we construct models only in order to do predictions. Predicting "the future" may have been an unfortunate turn of a phrase I see....
... I agree that we construct perceptual models and that these models help us predict some short-term events. But I find that these perceptual models are...
... Much has been made of the prediction and modeling that goes on, and I'm not one to hold back my thoughts when I disagree. I agree here -- but I think we...
I thought the following ideas would be relevant to the latter stream of discussions. We were talking about perception and I alluded to the fact that, IMHO, the...
... I am uneasy with this usage. A neuron reacts to incoming axonal impulses as modifed by the strength of its synapses. It can do nothing else. A brain...
... understanding ... That's not quite what I was claiming. I am proposing that understanding is displayed, or manifested in behavior and behavioral...
... Is it certain that these monkeys didn't learn the stick method from other monkeys? One monkey may have tried rocks, branches, and the appendages of other...
... While I disagree with his obsession with prediction, which is more of a symptom than the key process, what you're describing is simply the mechanics of how...
... I'd say it's more like software is dynamic, hardware is static. Software is virtual, hardware is physical. Firmware, by the way, is hardware with a copy of...
... axonal ... do ... more of a ... the mechanics ... I was under the impreession that all a scientist could hope to find was a mechanical description of how...
... I think some people on this list are under the impression that the neuro-mechanics of the brain are too low-level to be useful for understanding...
... other<BR> ... of<BR> ... That probably qualifies as a hybrid scenario, half mental model (the observer monkey makes a mental model of it, storing ...
... relevant ... some ... quite ... Hi, Sergio! I was actually referring to the kind of practical understanding that accompanies smooth coping with the objects...
... Hmm. I should really open the book and reread mass quantities before answering, as I feel free to cite it freely for its main point (in my view) of...
... It does not seem to me Minsky referred to those ordinary phenomena as part of the explanation of the working of inner inter-agency communication. Rather,...
... OK, then, I'd propose, as a merely useful heuristic, that we, computers, could be metaphorically compared to those queer mythical creatures: human beings...
[snip!] I've been following with some interest (as a linguist) the thread that has degenerated into a discussion of denotation/reference... At the risk of...
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... I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong. It's just that the philosophers will insist on knowing more of the truth about Fido in the world. I...
... I do not deny that. If there were a proof that said: look here the RNN is a particularly fitting model for this kind of general intelligence, if you alter...
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... I mostly agree with this, in particular with the idea that we command our motor outputs to position our sensory organs to get a better "view" of what we're...
On Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:11 PM, Fred Mailhot wrote in ai- philosophy: FM>> What's right/wrong with the view that the denotation of my word "Fido" is the...
... It seems fine to me, but it doesn't go a couple steps further that an AI *engineer* (as opposed to a modeler/philosopher) would require: 1) The physical...
... I agree. In our long discussions with David, I usually defend the thesis that reference is nothing more than a sufficiently accurate and coherent system of...
... Needless to say, for reference actual pointing-out-behavior is not necessary, but the calculations which will make such an action possible are, Regards, --...
See, this is part of why QM disgusts me: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html "However, quantum mechanics predicts that the photon actually...
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