Here is an example of a drunken Gnostic talking to an AI chatbot... 95% non-sense...but have you ever heard two drunks talking, sluring and not quite speaking...
An interesting bit about retina and the brain. What do you think? I think it illustrates that a naive theory of mind (like identity theory) is inadequate to...
... What on earth would lead one to suppose that this kind of separation had anything to do with mental states? It can't be done. As a philosophically inclined...
... I'd say that we cannot consider the brain in isolation from the sensory data it exists to process, and (outside brain-in-a-vat scenarios) this is dependent...
... Well, that linguist must be holding Chomsky's innateness assumption, which has not shown to be correct. In fact, there is ample evidence to the contrary. ...
... No, this was someone more in the cognitive linguistics camp. A Chomskyan would have given the transplanted brain a lot more than X-bar syntax, which is...
... Bayesian view. The following are the basics: Thanks I had seen you in other newsgroups but not taken the time to read your things, they have some of the...
In my system the degree of belief (truth value) and degree of usefulness (utility, or priority value) are different but related. The former is a function of...
I read the Computation paper. I think you are on the right track. The conventional approach to AI by computation is a baseless challenge to the complexity of...
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To consider AI as something only about inference is certainly a wrong track to follow. This reflects the conventional approach that the mind is just a ...
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Of course inference is not everything. I just want to start with a single technology and push it as far as possible. I choose to do an inference system,...
certainly agree. "Pei Wang" <peiwang@...> 08.10.2004 17:56 Please respond to ai-philosophy To: <ai-philosophy@yahoogroups.com> cc: Subject:...
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... I was thinking more along the lines of retroactivley removing revisions of a certain source if it proves uncredible. This would require storage of all or...
I was thinking more along the lines of retroactivley removing revisions of a certain source if it proves uncredible. This would require storage of all or...
In view of the recent discussions going on, I thought it might be worthwhile to discuss the merits of predictive modelling in computational intelligence. It...
(reply to #281) ... Well, you want to be careful to ask questions that don't constrain the answer. I'd say, as a matter of definition, perception is about...
Snipped bits that I agree on ... kinds of belief changes. ... cope ... That is true, what I am trying to explore in my system is the minimum that is needed to...
Some short remarks on philosophy of mathematics. Joshua suggests that methodological solipsism can form the basis for philosophy of computation better than...
... Chomskyan ... syntax, ... process ... chimp ... Ok. That's right the Chomskyan would have given more than X-bar syntax. I still think that is not specific...
Hi, folks, I'm a new member of this group, although I'm sure some of you here already know me from other places. My main interest is in cognitive neuroscience...
... world, ... systems. ... infer ... perceptual ... have ... it. OK. So, what do you think this pattern recognition module must accomplish? I think you mean...
... One hypothesis I came up with is that syntax is simply a combination of two cognitive abilities: categorisation and string processing. All animals possess...
As featured on cognews.com and discussed on c.a.p, Brazilian Piraha tribe lacks basic numerical skills and number words in their language, which is seen in...
I posted the original question on that thread and as a former graduate student in anthropology myself (B.A Anthropology & History, B.S. Computer Science) I...
Perhaps one may find methodological problems in that study, but the main fact is that it has indeed located an important difference between the cognitive...
Hi all, I was out of cyberspace for a while and it will take some time for me to catch up. I'm happy to see that membership increased :) During my "time out" I...
From: "Klaus D. Witzel" <kwitzel@...> ... Quite interesting question. I can only speculate. No linguistic communication between intelligent agents will...
... I haven't read the original study, but a protracted discussion on the cognitive linguistics list (cogling@...) was inconclusive. The main thing that...
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