On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 11:24 AM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Natural language is ambiguous at every level including tokens. Is > "someone" one word or two? > Tom Etter <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop#Participants>'s tragically unfinished final paper "Membership and Identity <https://groups.io/g/lawsofform/files/Boundary%20Institute/Tom%20Etter%20Papers/Membership_and_Identity.pdf>" has this quite insightful passage: Thing (n., singular): anything that can be distinguished from something > else. > ... > ...the word "thing" is a broken-off fragment of the more > fundamental compound words "anything" and "something". That these words are > fundamental is hardly debatable, since they are two of the four fundamental > words of symbolic logic, where they are written as ∀ and ∃. With this in > mind, let's reexamine the above definition of a *thing* as anything that > can be distinguished from something else... ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T682a307a763c1ced-M85f7e0507c5c4a130f91f15b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
