PM: Perhaps formulating the problem space is part of the solution. There is no problem space in a real world problem. This is a fundamental and near universal misunderstanding. ***The *world wide web* is the “problem space”.*** IOW more or less everything that exists in the world – the world wide web of real bodies - *may* pertain (and to some extent will pertain) to a real world problem – and even Jim and Ben with their far-ranging minds cannot define “everything that exists in the world.” (past, present and future). In fact, neither can our entire cultural organization (e.g. sciences/scientists). Why is a woman attracted to a man in an office? One factor could be butterflies flapping wings in Brazil that changed the weather in New York to sunny that changed her disposition. Another factor could be her period and the supply of tampons. Another factor could be the news on TV. Ultimately everything in the world around her has some bearing however limited on her attraction. And everything in her mind – her entire mental organization – has some bearing on it. And everything in the history of the world has some bearing. Plus – every situation is different and non-formulaic to some extent. Why she is attracted today will not follow exactly the same principles as her attraction last month, or other women’s attraction in other offices. Psychologists, historians and artists analysing her attraction will be able to endlessly produce new analyses citing new factors – just as artists can endlessly produce new versions of the story of Romeo & Juliet’s attraction.. AI has metacognitively failed to understand the real world reasoning principles of science and scientific models – and indeed of logic and mathematical models. It is a fundamental principle of science that scientific models are artificial selections of a set of factors affecting a situation – from a world – a world wide web - of possible factors. A real world reasoner trying to explain a problem situation, asks: “what in the world could have brought this about?” “What on earth could have...”? Not “what in my handily pre-prepared set of options could have caused this?” An AGI must be able to search the real world wide web for solutions just as any human can search the information world wide web.for solutions. (Try defining “the world wide web” that is the internet in terms of a problem and solution space – and remember that we all now do indeed search the world wide web/net daily for solutions).
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