On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:22:19 -0500, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, if the scope of a mind is narrowed enough, then it can be more
coherent.
Right, I understand there is a definite trade-off here between knowledge
or scope and coherency, due mainly to resource limitations. The best we
can hope for is that an AGI might be more coherent than us, but this is by
no means assured.
On a slightly different but closely related subject...
Last night I was out having pizza with some others, trying to pretend to
be interested in the conversation, while actually thinking about the posts
we had exchanged earlier in the day. :) While munching on onions and
pepperoni it occurred to me that the problem of achieving complete or
near-complete coherency in AGI is closely related to the epistemological
problem of obtaining knowledge where knowledge is defined as 'justified
true belief'. Karl Popper's arguments against that possibility strike me
as similar to and closely related to your arguments against the
possibility of complete probabilistic coherency in AGI: any such attempt
must lead to an infinite regress.
So then I wondered to myself how Popper's alternative,
non-justificationist epistemology might be applicable to AGI. Any thoughts
on that subject? (I won't presume to educate you about Popper; I recall
that you studied Philosophy of Science and so should know all about him.)
-gts
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