Re: Short Circuiting Artificial Intelligence

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:02:22 GMT, "Phil Roberts, Jr."
<philrob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>AlphaOmega wrote:
>
>> This is simply (haha) a matter of reasoning by analogy - most jokes play on
>> that concept. But getting a machine to reason by analogy (ala Cyc) is no
>> easy matter indeed.
>>
>
>You've hit the nail on the head. ANA-logical (as in NON LOGICAL)
>reasoning is at the heart of everything:
>
>
> One should not think of analogy-making as a special
> variety of reasoning (as in the dull and uninspiring
> phrase "analogical reasoning and problems solving,"
> a long-standing cliche in the cognitive science world),
> for that is to do analogy a terrible disservice. Afer
> all, reasoninng and problem-solving have (at least I
> dearly hope!) been at long last recognized as lying
> far indeed from the core of human thought. If analogy
> were merely a special variety of something that in
> itself lies way out on the peripheries, then it would
> be but an itty bitty blip in the broad blue sky of
> cognition. To me, however, analogy is anything but
> a bitty blip -- rather, ITS THE VERY BLUE THAT FILLS
> THE WHOLE SKY OF COGNITION -- ANALOGY IS EVERYTHING...
> (Douglas Hofstadter) [emphasis mind].
>
>
> All forms of reasoning are nothing but comparing (David Hume).

Well there is a smattering of truth in most analogies. Problem is no
one can quite be sure where. The critical path is analytical and not
analogical reasoning. Analogical reasoning is just a happenstantial
descriptive approximation of something but no one can be sure what.

~v~~

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