Jim, I doubt that your "specification" equals my "individualization". If I want to be able to recognize the individuals, Curtis/Brian/Carl/ and Billi Bromer,only images will do it:
http://www.dunningmotorsales.com/IMAGES/people/Curtis%20Bromer.jpg http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/socialdiary/2006/02_27_06/images/BRomer-Sir-PThomas.jpg http://www.stellarsales.com/images/carl3.jpg http://www.dec-sped.org/images/executiveboard/Billi_Bromer.jpg If you'd like to try a logical, verbal, mathematical description of any oneof those individuals, so that someone will be sure to recognize them, be my guest :). That's why they put photos on your passport and not program printouts or verbal descriptions. "All the words in the world won't tell you what a bucket looks like." McLuhan Jim/MT:, "The "making sense" level of your brain - an AGI that works - is the level that seeks individual examples (and exceptions) for every generalization. A general intelligence doesn't just generalize, it individualizes. It can talk not just about "the field of AGI" but about Boris K, Ben G., Stephen Reed, etc etc. And it has to, otherwise those generalizations don't "make sense". I'm stressing this because so many people's ideas about AGI ... involve only, or almost only a generalizing intelligence with no individualizing, sensemaking level." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I agree with what Mike was saying in the part of his message I quoted here, except that the ability to understand involves the ability to make generalizations. But, a generalization can be seen as a specific relative to another level of generalization. I also think most people who have been seriously involved in AI and who think of AI in terms of generalization realize that specification must play an important role in understanding. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
