> > Brad, > > > > One useful distinction here is between "declarative" and "procedural" > > knowledge. > > It's a very potent distinction indeed, especially in the > cognitive sciences. > > It is my opinion that one of the strengths of the brain is that > declarative knowledge, at least some forms of it, can become > procedural over a long period of time.
Yep. Novamente contains particular mechanisms for converting between declarative and procedural knowledge... something that is learned procedurally can become declarative and vice versa. In fact, if all goes according to plan (a big if of course ;) Novamente should *eventually* be much better at this than the human brain. For instance, humans are not very good at making procedural knowledge declarative -- it takes a rare human to be able to explain and understand how they do something they know how to do well. There is a real algorithmic difficulty here, but even so, I think a lot of the difficulty that humans have in doing this is "unnecessary", i.e. a consequence of the particular way the brain is structured rather than a consequence of the (admittedly large) difficulty of the problem involved. -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
