"J Storrs Hall, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 08:12:08 pm James Ratcliff wrote: > 1. Is anyone taking an approach to AGI without the use of Symbol Grounding?
You'll have to go into that a bit more for me please. Symbol grounding is something of a red herring. There's a whole raft of philosophical conundrums (qualia among them) that simply evaporate if you take the systems approach to AI and say "we're going to build a machine that does this kind of thing, and we're going to assume that the human brain is such a machine as well." In what way? I try to edge around most of the fuzzy, magic points of philosophy and just get to what needs to be programmed. On the other hand, the trend to building robots in AI can be a valuable tool to keep oneself from doing the hard part of the problem in preparing the input for the program, thus fooling oneself into thinking the program has solved a harder problem than it has. What is the "hard part of the problem in preparing the input for the program"? Josh ----- 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/?&; _______________________________________ James Ratcliff - http://falazar.com Looking for something... --------------------------------- You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ----- 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=e9e40a7e
