One more bit of ranting on this topic, to try to clarify the sort of thing I'm trying to understand. Some dude is telling my AGI program: "There's a piece called a 'knight'. It moves by going two squares in one direction and then one in a perpendicular direction. And here's something neat: Except for one other obscure case I'll tell you about later, it's the only piece that moves by jumping through the air instead of moving a square at a time on its journey." When I try to think about how an intelligence works, I wonder about specific cases like these (and thanks to William Pearson for inventing this one) -- the genesis of the "knight" concept from this specific purely verbal exchange. How could this work? What is it about the specific word sequences and/or the conversational context that creates this new "thing" -- the Knight? It would have to be a hugely complicated language processing system... so where did that language processing system come from? Did somebody hardcode a model of language and conversation and explicitly insert "generate concept here" actions? That sounds like a big job. If it was learned (much better), how was it learned? What is the internal representation of the language processing model that leads to this particular concept formation, and how was it generated? If I can see something specific like that in a system (say Novamente) I can start to really understand the theory of mind it expresses.
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