Josh, You asked "What do these webs of associations *do*?"
They are the knowledge base overwhich massively parallel hardware computes. Massive search, holonic pattern matching, spreading activation, rippling confabulation-like relaxations, thresholding, etc. Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: J Storrs Hall, PhD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:08 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] "symbol grounding" Q&A On Tuesday 16 October 2007 03:24:07 pm, Edward W. Porter wrote: > AS I SAID ABOVE, I AM THINKING OF LARGE COMPLEX WEBS OF COMPOSITIONAL > AND GENERALIZATIONAL HIERARCHIES, ASSOCIATIONS, EPISODIC EXPERIENCES, > ETC, OF SUFFICIENT COMPLEXITY AND DEPTH TO REPRESENT THE EQUIVALENT OF > HUMAN WORLD KNOWLEDGE. > > SO, IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY “STRUCTURES? What do these webs of associations *do*? Are they like sentences in a book, waiting for some homunculus to read them, or are they like components in a circuit, an active machine and not just a static picture? If components, how do you specify what their functions are? 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/?&; ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=54400094-ba6237
