Leatherbound AI notes p12 (2003)

Leatherbound AI notes p12

Sunday, November 20, 2005

7:14 PM

4/20/03

I just joined AAAI yesterday. They cover a variety of topics that I have touched on in my  journals. Amazingly, they even have a section on the mechanics of common sense. I haven't  read far into the current theory - but I still believe that they are missing the point that  "common sense" is the result of our own experimentation over time. If you distill the  mechanics of thought & enable a machine to process, learn and explore common sense will  follow naturally.

This brings me back to my original musings on the nature of thought

 

Avoid thinking of nouns and verbs. Everything is a cept with associated interactive &  combinatory rules; in fact, these rules are cepts themselves

Evaluation:

How does the evaluative process figure into the cept model?

 

[11/20/2005 - It's good to see that I correct myself in mid though sometimes. The evaluation  and link engineering should be part of the system, not the cept model itself. I think I was  trying to establish a system whose rules were flexible enough to change themselves… but the  truth is, our brains treat words and thoughts (cepts) in very consistent, predictable ways.  Even if this system turns out to be flexible, it doesn't matter because we're working within an  environment where the system doesn't require that level of flexibility. (Think: using  Newtonian physics for every day planet-earth situations as opposed to quantum mechanics.)  The goal is to mimic, not mirror.

Ignore the drawings - they're crap.]