Hi Eray, Happy New Year. Um, I was wondering something... I came across an optical phenomenon and was unable to find any reference on the Net as to whether it...
Hi Ray, I'm still recovering from new year's festivities (if you know what I mean...), but what you've found is fascinating. It seems to reveal how our...
Replying: I think that the development of formal logical methods of representation would work for AI, but a formal quantified treatment of thought itself would...
Yeah, as I was watching it, I realized that here was a perfect example that what we see truly is in our minds. There must be some threshold level, below which,...
Hello, I am a beginner and this is my first post to ai-philosophy, so please, kindly, bear with me. I am pondering the question of the relationship between the...
... I understand that. But then, what is the algorithm of verification of an a posteriori proposition? Or, perhaps, most importantly, how does an agent obtain...
... example ... threshold ... noise ... the > available light. One thing you might notice is that, for the dimmest line with low- contrast, you cannot "pull...
If consciousness (or feeling) is a continuum from simple to complex, I think human consciousness and the continual feeling of "being stuck in one's head" for a...
A fundamental concept in programming is that of de-bugging, correctively developing programs. Can we give a good general definition of a "bug"? Is this concept...
... Yes, I see that too. I also noticed that in the low-contrast situation, the letter I was directly staring at tended to be almost rock solid, while the...
... I would just point out that often an unexpected behavior is seen in a program, and there is extensive debate about whether it is "a bug or a feature". If...
... So, perhaps the concept of a bug is an often seen property of any general purpose control program. ... Clear bugs are interesting. We say that these are...
Hi Eray, you wrote: ... Would the Turing Halting Problem qualify? ... If you allow hardware specification (as a special case of software specification) then a...
... That is the obvious truth about this world I have only very recently learned. There can be no ethical proposition (Wittgenstein). ... Yes. Eray, as...
... situation, ... solid, ... out, ... ........ I'll take a look at your experiment. However, related to what you said above, there is an experiment which Jeff...
... <a_tomaszewski@y...> wrote: ... define how "facts" can be "expressed". ... Science is imperfect in almost every way. All data can be considered to be a...
In my opinion, this thread concerns a variation on Necker's Cube (A.L. Necker,1832). Updated by Escher (1954) and Penrose (1958). I especially like Penrose's...
... The answer to the first question is No. However, after fifty years of programming, I know one when I see one. The answer to the second question is also No....
... else is ... This, of course, is early Wittgenstein. I think that many would say that language is an imperfect instrument and not capable of describing the...
I think the "bug concept" is the gateway to the next generation of computationial paradigm. How can we be sure about the results we expect from the...
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... It is obvious that there is a signal processing circuitry in action, but our goal is to find out which one, and since we have built nothing like a general...
... Yes! That would be a wonderful example. The halting problem describes an infinitary family of nasty bugs: non-halting programs. These procedures cannot...
... Personally, I cannot say if I agree with Wittgenstein about that, but as a heuristic in my philosophy I try to avoid discussing ethical propositions....
JB wrote: [snipped the most interesting lecture] JB, I have most enthusiastically and carefully studied your remarks. It is obvious to me that this NG is the...
... nothing ... There are many optical illusions and there are many visual areas in the cortex (at least 30) which have feedback connections with each other. I...
If we wish to call bugs=errors, then there are at least three sorts. They're typically compile-time, run-time and logic. 1) Compile time bugs are the easiest...
... fwiw, I would go along with that. What looks stable is actually being continually impressed into the mind. It's analogous to formulating scientific laws --...
... There are, in my vision, two topics that appear related to this subject. First, computation is "deduction", which means, if you have the wrong set of...
The idea that computers just do what they are told is nonsense. We can say that since people are composed of matter they are strictly deterministic, because...
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