Re: [agi] Logical representation

2007-03-16 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 3/16/07, David Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is "very complicated" a good reason to have 1 cognitive engine? Why not have many and even use many on the same problem and then accept the best answer? Best answer might change for a single problem depending on other issues outside the actual

Re: [agi] Logical representation

2007-03-16 Thread Eric Baum
David> I think that humans intertwine their thoughts with their David> language. There is some anecdotal evidence that the language facility is not necessary to thought, for example a Monk who would periodically undergo localized epileptic seizures in which he would report (after the fact) tha

[agi] design and control of self-organizing systems

2007-03-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
A nice Ph.D. thesis: http://cogprints.org/5442/01/thesis.pdf -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2

[agi] DARPA Ends Brain Reverse Engineering Project

2007-03-16 Thread Jef Allbright
FYI, - Jef An article in the New Jersey Star-Ledgersays DARPA has "quietly killed" their project to reverse engineering the human brain. The project, known as Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures

Re: [agi] Logical representation

2007-03-16 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: "Eric Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:02 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Logical representation > I would also argue that other > animals think pretty effectively-- but maybe they use internally > pidgin English as you think we do. I don't

Re: [agi] DARPA Ends Brain Reverse Engineering Project

2007-03-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
Well, Novamente LLC submitted a proposal to this that was rejected. My impression was that most of the recipients of the BICA funding did not have credible AGI approaches, and many were in fact relatively new to the AGI problem. The recipients were by and large smart scientists with interest

Re: [agi] Logical representation

2007-03-16 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: YKY (Yan King Yin) To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:48 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Logical representation Let me concede that having a centralized cognitive engine may make the system kind of brittle. It may be the same reason why a