A clearer way of stating how I perceive our approaches as differing would be to say that I believe that you are learning by discovery while I am accumulating already discovered knowledge and resolving conflicts. I think that we are attacking two very different, complementary problems.
My hypothesis is that interpretation and conflict-resolution of already-discovered knowledge that is explicitly articulated in text, can be done really effectively only on the basis of a large body of low-level common-sense that has NOT been explicitly articulated in text (but can be gathered via embodied learning) So, my guess is that your approach may well work to build some useful practical domain-specific systems, but will hit a fairly low intelligence ceiling... But I will be pleased if I'm proved wrong ;-) ben g ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
