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We call Donald Trump and Boris Johnston and his cat and the mice that the cat hunts and the fleas on the mice and the coronavirus etc LIVING. But Boris's desk and his TV and the computer program...
03 March 2020 4,425 2 View
I am familiar with the traditional ways in which AI planning systems have been designed and built, but I am less familiar with the new and fashionable Deep Learning techniques. It is not...
09 September 2018 2,110 5 View
Consider, for example, possible deficiencies in the genetic specification of the human brain. Has anyone addressed this or an analogous question mathematically?
03 March 2018 1,978 12 View
My background is in AI (see profile here on RG). I suspect that (weak) AI systems have already been deployed for this type of application. Thank you for your consideration Jim Doran
12 December 2017 9,084 3 View
In the ILIAD (Bk 18) (written down probably in 8th century BCE) there is mention of one of the Gods (the smith, Hephaestus) having created intelligent androids in gold. As translated by A. T....
11 November 2017 5,666 1 View
In Homer’s Iliad there are two groups of characters – Gods and Humans. Each of these groups is sub-divided into competing factions. The Gods observe, manipulate and sometimes respond to Humans,...
09 September 2017 8,189 6 View
This quotation comes from the famous poem “Morte d’Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Compare, perhaps, scientific testing of the proposition: “More patients suffering from disease D are cured by...
02 February 2017 3,826 7 View
Types of element no doubt include sensa and percepts (do these two differ?), and processes no doubt include association and anticipation. For example, if I see a model of the Eiffel Tower in a...
10 October 2016 5,859 8 View
Gill’s Idea:(my #2 daughter proposed this shortly before she died in 2008)"We are all avatars in a virtual reality game being played by creatures in a “higher” reality. To make the game more...
03 March 2016 8,942 4 View
Much depends on the word "seemingly" in the question. Perhaps we might take "seemingly" to imply that the behavior generating network passes a specified statistical test of randomness.
02 February 2016 7,510 11 View
Such a proof requires, of course, precise mathematical/computational definitions of “artificial society”, “combination”, and all other more specific concepts/properties involved. Note that such a...
02 February 2016 9,232 4 View
Note that the number of spacetime points at which "I" have looked in a mirror is, relatively speaking, very few. Indeed, most mirrors are not checked most of the time! This issue is not primarily...
05 May 2015 387 1 View
Are there any recent, detailed studies, with hard evidence, that examine the often heard opinion that the funding procedures for scientific research typically in use worldwide very commonly...
01 January 2015 7,679 3 View
Plato’s Cave: see Plato’s “The Republic” (514a to 520a) or just the Wikipedia entry Gilbert’s Barrier: “The human soul uses reason, sees many things, investigates many more; but, however well...
01 January 2015 1,492 21 View
To MAXIMISE certain specified input to P1 from P2? In this context, a production system comprises a set of IF-THEN rules, a working memory, and an execution process including a conflict resolution...
12 December 2014 4,096 11 View
Eg I would like to send a message to my father in the 1900s congratulating him on my own birth. Explanations that merely deny reverse causality seem to me uncompelling because the nature of...
11 November 2014 2,126 15 View
What algorithms have been suggested to abstract ABMs (ie to generate from one ABM another ABM that is more abstract) with the hope of obtaining ABMs that are more effective in some way?A...
11 November 2014 2,239 4 View
On the recent 73rd anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear attack I took part in a informal discussion targeted at exploring possible ways of preventing such terrible catastrophes in the future. I...
01 January 1970 1,989 5 View
Can the modernist American poet Ezra Pound’s creative thought process, particularly as exhibited by his (Pisan) Canto LXXVII, usefully be explored from the complementary perspectives of Cognitive...
01 January 1970 3,486 14 View
So how DO you know? Question taken from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, published June 5: 1793 by William Blake (English artist, poet and revolutionary thinker) This is a deliberately...
01 January 1970 9,807 3 View
