On 8/15/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Phil, I see no conceptual problems with using probability theory to
define context-dependent or viewpoint-dependent probabilities...
Regarding YKY's example, "causation" is a subtle concept going beyond
probability (but strongly probabilistically based), and indeed any
mind needs to have fairly general and at least moderately clever
methods for dealing with it.... But I see no problem with the
assignment of numerical truth values to causal statements. Judea
Pearl's math does it; Novamente's math does it...
There isn't a problem in doing it, but there's serious doubts whether
an approach in which symbols have constant meanings (the same symbol
has the same semantics in different propositions) can lead to AI.
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