On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:27:22 -0500, Jef Allbright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
You would have to assume that statement 2 is *entirely* contingent on
statement 1.
I don't believe so. If statement S is only partially contingent on some
other statement, or contingent on any number of other statements, then
simple coherency demands only that we assign the p of S to be less than
the p of any of those other statements on which S is contingent. It makes
no difference for the sake of coherency how many of those other statements
are known or in memory, nor does it matter whether our assigned
probabilities match "reality".
I think coherency is probably a necessary but not a sufficient condition
for intelligence. I hope it is not really outside the range of what is
possible in AI.
-gts
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