On 9/6/2011 12:43 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
I was talking about realism in a sense that universals exist (I am not sure if this
could be generalized for all things). My first naive/crazy idea was that this could give
some basis to produce qualia related to notation. Neurons somehow distill universals
from things and report them.
On the other hand, if we are to write a program that should classify objects, then this
program should have some dictionary with categories. That dictionary in some sense
should exist.
Wouldn't those neural net face recognition programs be an example of this. They start out
not knowing anyone's face. But then with training they learn to recognize Brent and
distinguish him from Evgenii. Each instance of the Brent image is a little different from
the other instances but it assigned the same classification for purposes of access or
other action. In effect it has invented "Brent" and "Evgenii" as universals. The
'dictionary' then exists as the combined information of the program and memory. The
persistent patterns in memory are analogous to dictionary entries. The imaging and
actions provide the meaning of these entries.
Brent
This was my second naive/crazy thought. It would be interesting to look how
realism/nominalism is translated into the object-oriented programming.
Evgenii
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