Richard:> Suppose, further, that the only AGI systems that really do work
are ones
in which the symbols never use "truth values" but use other stuff (for
which there is no interpretation) and that the thing we call a "truth
value" is actually the result of an operator that can be applied to a
bunch of connected symbols. This [truth-value = external operator] idea
is fundamentally different from [truth-value = internal parameter] idea,
obviously.
I almost added to my last post that another reason the brain never seizes up
is that its concepts (& its entire representational operations) are
open-ended trees, relatively ill-defined and ill-structured, and therefore
endlessly open to reinterpretation. Supergeneral concepts like "Go away,"
"Come here", "put this over there", or indeed "is that true?" enable it to
be flexible and creatively adaptive, especially if it gets stuck - and find
other ways, for example, to "go" "come," "put" or deem as "true" etc.
Is this something like what you are on about?
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