Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5) I have looked at your paper and my feelings are exactly the same as > Mark's .... theorems developed on erroneous assumptions are worthless.
Which assumptions are erroneous? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ---- From: Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:09:23 PM Subject: Re: [agi] A question on the symbol-system hypothesis Matt Mahoney wrote: > Richard, what is your definition of "understanding"? How would you test > whether a person understands art? > > Turing offered a behavioral test for intelligence. My understanding of > "understanding" is that it is something that requires intelligence. The > connection between intelligence and compression is not obvious. I have > summarized the arguments here. > http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html 1) There will probably never be a compact definition of "understanding". Nevertheless, it is possible for us (being understanding systems) to know some of its features. I could produce a shopping list of typical features of understanding, but that would not be the same as a definition, so I will not. See my paper in the forthcoming proceedings of the 2006 AGIRI workshop, for arguments. (I will make a version of this available this week, after final revisions). 3) One tiny, almost-too-obvious-to-be-worth-stating fact about understanding is that it compresses information in order to do its job. 4) To mistake this tiny little facet of understanding for the whole is to say that a hurricane IS rotation, rather than that rotation is a facet of what a hurricane is. 5) I have looked at your paper and my feelings are exactly the same as Mark's .... theorems developed on erroneous assumptions are worthless. Richard Loosemore ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303 ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
