--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PeI:> To test the power of "visual reasoning", here is a rough visual > > explanation on two very different ways for "symbols" to get their > > meaning: > > > > http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.semantics-figure.pdf > > > > Wow, I have to stop talking but this is really stimulating. Your > paper/illustrations are v. useful as far as they go, but they are almost > literally the tip of the iceberg. Your Experience-Grounded Semantics > represents a flower/pot as a tree or net of attached symbols > > "plant - containing - blossom - round" etc > > Now can we please have the VAST attached clusters/ trees of images of > flowers and pots that your brain has, and uses, to understand and process > flowers/plants
That's called a semantic network. Words are associated with other words that appear near it in a large corpus of text, for example: http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=flower&q2=plant&q3=pot&q4=containing&q5=blossom&btn=Large+Set I agree that non symbolic (e.g. visual) processing is important for systems with non-symbolic I/O. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
