> > "paradigm" ...I still find it a fuzzy term, Kuhn reviews this fuzziness in his epilogue on the 3rd edition.
But one definition of "paradigm" is the shared examples which drive a field. For example, chess for GOFAI, or the Turing Test for AI. These two are notparadigms for a new field of AGI -- in fact, shared AGI paradigms do not yet exist. (In my PhD, I was always a bit annoyed that we illustrated linguistic phenomena by the same tired old examples -- it seemed to me that it would have been more scientific to adduce statistical samples. That's true, but now I realize that these examples tie a community together.) AGI-08 conference , > OpenCog AGI project > -- AGI email list > -- 2006 AGI workshop > -- two AGI edited volumes > Not to mention books, articles, collaborations, Webmind (which formed a community of people thinking about AGI), AGIRI, the role in SIAI, the Dyn. Psych. Journal, the AGI ontology,... Joshua ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=85974834-73e7f4
