In response to below post from Josh Hall: I am using "Holonic" as Eliezer S. Yudkowsky used in in his LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION IN GENERAL INTELLIGENCE in which he said
""Holonic" is a useful word to describe the simultaneous application of reductionism and holism, in which a single quality is simultaneously a combination of parts and a part of a greater whole [Koestler67]. Note that "holonic" does not imply strict hierarchy, only a general flow from high-level to low-level and vice versa. For example, a single feature detector may make use of the output of lower-level feature detectors, and act in turn as an input to higher-level feature detectors. The information contained in a mid-level feature is then the holistic sum of many lower-level features, and also an element in the sums produced by higher-level features. If you pick one vantage point in a holonic structure and "look down" (reductionism) you find parts composing the local whole, with simpler behaviors that contribute to local complexity; if you "look up" (holism) you find a greater whole to which local parts contribute, and more complex processes which local behaviors support. " I basically use it to be representation in roughly hierarchical network, such as that defined by Jeff Hawkings, or in the Serre PhD thesis I have cited so often. Representations using such nets have many advantages, such as functional invariance, ability to inherit information from more general nodes, etc. -----Original Message----- From: J Storrs Hall, PhD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:01 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] "symbol grounding" Q&A On Tuesday 16 October 2007 08:43:23 pm, Edward W. Porter wrote: > ... holonic pattern matching, ... Now there's a word you don't hear every day :-) I've always thought of it as a feature of Arthur Koestler's somewhat poetic ontology of hierarchy. And it appears to enjoy a minor vogue as a subspecies of agent-based systems. But you'll have to explain what holonic pattern matching is, please? 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=54425955-0e370a
