All data can be interpreted as symbolic data. Sensory data, for example, does not come off the shelf imbued with all its potential meaning; the meaning of...
... From: Jim Bromer <jbromer@...> [...] ... That is indeed the big problem. But I wouldn't say that reasoning (whatever that really means) is the big...
... interactions ... I don't want to belabor the issue but you did not seem to understand what I was getting at. From the point of view of the design problem,...
From: Jim Bromer <jbromer@...> ... This is quite a claim, although I am at your side here. I know quite a lot of researchers who would strongly disagree...
I was a little careless when I read your fist message. I am glad you took the time to make some more remarks. I believe is that we need to develop more...
Jim, I pretty much understand all you said in your message and, apart from some naming differences, what I think follows this structure. However, one of the...
I am also interested in the problems of naďve learning as well, so I would like to hear more about the ideas you are working on. It will be sometime before I...
After a few conversations with some people in a few different groups, I realize that I have to make some corrections. When I said that my solution to the...
Hello there, On c.a.p., I have been talking about cognitive universals and now I want to make a very brief summary of what I think are cognitive universals. I...
Could you explain what you are talking about? Jim Bromer ... conept. ... conceptualizations of ... learning, ... system. (ie, ... a LoT ... means to...
... OK. I remember this point raised by philosophers of computation. I think there should be an article about this in Computationalism: The Next Generation,...
... If you think Godel contradicted the law of the excluded middle, this may mean you have not carefully read Godel's own philosophical work. You might want to...
Greetings fellow philosophers! Jim had requested for some explanation. Here is an example. Given experience, predict the future. The method should be ...
See Chaitin's "Gödel's Theorem and Information" http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/georgia.html This is great stuff, but again, Godel and Chaitin...
Hello there, I enjoyed a moment of recreation yesterday which I would like to share with you. I was considering category theoretical models of mind. That is, I...
Greetings fellow philosophers, Please consider my new and somewhat radical theory of mind. I give you "The Simulacra Theory of Mind": The mind is a universal...
So Davidson was teaching Quine how to surf. Have a look :) ... Subject: [analytic] "Somewhere in California" (Was: Grice) Date: Tuesday 30 March 2004 07:30 ...
Hi Eray, Just thought of something else that I felt would be good to share, fwiw. I was reading on c.a.p. about the sense of humor thing, and because humor...
... method should be ... means to ... This example is disappointing, Eray. Given anybody's experience in lottery, one would very much like to predict the...
Hello Klaus, Nice to hear from you. ... Of course. However, I was referring to such work as Ray Solomonoff's which offers general purpose computational methods...
... Hi Eray, nice to be here. ... consistent ... Solomonoff's which ... Will take R. Solomonoff as homework, thanks. ... method for ... approximate ... dealing...
... [snip] I'll respond in a while. Meanwhile, I suggest members of this group to take note of the discussion. It doesn't get any more interesting than this. ...
Hi Eray, having read the paper you suggested (and some of the related material), I came to believe the work of R. Solomonoff is the work of a great man. He...
Hi Eray, how about "E. Durfee. What your computer really needs to know, you learned in kindergarten. In 10th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,...
... It doesn't talk too much about computation in the neural basis in face recognition, except to state that face recognition requires a special processor and...