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They’ve discovered that neurons make connections independently of a subject’s experience.
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They’ve discovered that neurons make connections independently of a subject’s experience.
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The researchers were able to demonstrate that small clusters of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex interconnect according to a set of immutable and relatively simple rules.
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" So if you use such terms, define what you mean! Strictly, ``symbolic AI'' is a misnomer, because connectionist systems also symbolise things. It would be better to say ``AI as computation over discrete symbol systems''. I shall explain why in the following section. However, for brevity, I'll stick to the term ``symbolic AI''. "
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explicit representation of world-models, goals, and such entitities
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AI as computation over discrete symbol systems
"This is a highly polemical critique of the "Cyc" system being constructed by Douglas Lenat and his colleagues at MCC in Texas, purportedly to capture "common sense knowledge." It caused a fair amount of furor when it was published, and was responded to in print (also in IEEE Expert) by both Lenat himself and Yuval Lirov of AT&T Bell Laboratories. "
"Who Is He? Doug Lenat is an artificial intelligence pioneer who is leading the human "memome" project, an effort to codify all the common sense in a person's head."
Lev Grossman talks to Doug Lenat to find out
Time-Digital Magazine, October 1998
Yet even as we are acquiring ever more extraordinary knowledge, we are storing it in ever more fragile and ephemeral forms. If our civilisation runs into trouble, like all others before it, how much would survive? - tech - 02 February 2010 - New Scientist
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"In this week’s eSkeptic, Priscilla Sakezles discusses the famous words most often attributed to Socrates, “All I know is that I know nothing.” claiming that it is indeed a misquote." Skeptic: eSkeptic: Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
"In this paper I present a number of classroom tools and techniques that I have found effective for teaching James’s lecture, and the broader debate that has ensued over “the ethics of belief.” My classroom approach is somewhat reconstructive of James’s argument, which is well-noted for its ambiguities and lack of effective organization. But I have found that the Tables and syllogism that I provide below aid student comprehension, and allow teachers to utilize limited classroom time in a more focussed and productive manner."
"Web 2.0 is redefining what and how and with whom we learn." (EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 3 (May/June 2008): 80–81)
"Can inner experience (“phenomenal consciousness” in contemporary philosophical lingo) be accurately apprehended and faithfully described? The question is crucially important, both for a humanistic understanding of who we are and what we know about ourselves and for the newly burgeoning scientific field of “consciousness studies.” One of us, Russ, is an optimist, believing that adequate methods make faithful descriptions of experience possible. The other, Eric, is a pessimist, believing that people are prone to considerable introspective error even under the best of conditions. Five years ago at a conference in Tucson, we presented opposing papers on the matter and instantly became friends, arguing over dinner, then over margaritas, then again the next day, then in the airport waiting for our respective flights home." (-- Russell T. Hurlburt & Eric Schwitzgebel)
'Knowledge about our own mental states seems to be the most secure thing in the world, doesn’t it? I certainly know what I feel and think right now and I know it more securely than any other thing I might know. Right? Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel begs to differ." (Edouard Machery, Psychology Today Blogs)
Reliabilism is a general approach to epistemology that emphasizes the truth-conduciveness of a belief-forming process, method, or other epistemologically relevant factor. (Alvin Goldman)
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