In the fourth century B.C., Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu framed
the question in more poetic terms. He described a vivid dream.
In it, he was a butterfly who had no awareness of his existence
as a person. When he awoke, he asked: "Was I before Chuang
Tzu who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly
who dreams about being Chuang Tzu?
To which I would counter:
"Formerly, I, Chuang Chou, dreamed that I was a butterfly, a butterfly
flying about feeling that it was enjoying itself. I did not know that it
was Chou. Suddenly I awoke and was myself again, the veritable Chou. I did
not know whether it had formerly been Chou dreaming that he was a butterfly,
or it was now a butterfly dreaming that it was Chou. But between Chou and a
butterfly there must be a difference. This is a case of what is called the
transformation of things."
- from Taoist Tales, ed. Raymond Van Over, Mentor, 1973
Note the second-to-last sentence: "But between Chou and a butterfly there must be a difference." Assuming such is not the same as proof, of course.
... but what the web can do for AI. Obviously, client-side scripting begins to resemble neural processing. Consider training GAs with web-site-visitor input regarding, for example, aesthetics. Try applying ideas in heuristic search to links in web sites: just for kicks, come up with a situation in which you want something other than the shortest path or goal state. If at a loss, go for the gusto & do Perl:LWP crawls over newshub.com and try translating the results to FOPL. Do standardized requests from all the usual search engines, and based on the usefulness of the results, create a fuzzy controlled meta search engine deciding which to use for a given search. good luck. - - - "this world's been too many for me."
What's up; when I was a kid growing up in Honduras I used to listen to 'Master of Puppets' while learning BASIC on my TI-99/4A.
Lars (from Denmark, right?), how much do you think American culture has influenced the way you dealt with Napster (by calling in the lawyers and focusing on 'the bottom line')? And to what extent are you willing to be influenced by the Internet culture, with its emphasis on open access to resources and power to the end user?
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They say:
To which I would counter:
"Formerly, I, Chuang Chou, dreamed that I was a butterfly, a butterfly flying about feeling that it was enjoying itself. I did not know that it was Chou. Suddenly I awoke and was myself again, the veritable Chou. I did not know whether it had formerly been Chou dreaming that he was a butterfly, or it was now a butterfly dreaming that it was Chou. But between Chou and a butterfly there must be a difference. This is a case of what is called the transformation of things."
- from Taoist Tales, ed. Raymond Van Over, Mentor, 1973
Note the second-to-last sentence: "But between Chou and a butterfly there must be a difference." Assuming such is not the same as proof, of course.
... but what the web can do for AI. Obviously, client-side scripting begins to resemble neural processing. Consider training GAs with web-site-visitor input regarding, for example, aesthetics. Try applying ideas in heuristic search to links in web sites: just for kicks, come up with a situation in which you want something other than the shortest path or goal state. If at a loss, go for the gusto & do Perl:LWP crawls over newshub.com and try translating the results to FOPL. Do standardized requests from all the usual search engines, and based on the usefulness of the results, create a fuzzy controlled meta search engine deciding which to use for a given search. good luck.
- - -
"this world's been too many for me."
Lars (from Denmark, right?), how much do you think American culture has influenced the way you dealt with Napster (by calling in the lawyers and focusing on 'the bottom line')? And to what extent are you willing to be influenced by the Internet culture, with its emphasis on open access to resources and power to the end user?