From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 21:42:37 MDT
In case it wasn't evident from context, this message was intended for
Eliezer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Ben Goertzel
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:51 PM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: RE: Review of Novamente & a2i2
>
>
>
> One more thing.
>
> I am quite perplexed by your notion that concepts need to be *named* to be
> useful.
>
> Don't you believe in content-addressable memory???
>
> This is one of the design principles that Novamente inherits from
> attractor
> neural nets (ANN's), actually.
>
> Semantic nets, which you dislike, involve addressing concepts by name.
>
> ANN's involve addressing concepts by *specifying part of their
> contents* or
> *specifying a collection of related entities*.
>
> In Novamente (an integrative design), *some* concepts are addressable by
> name, but *all* concepts are addressable ANN-style (because concepts are
> represented by "maps", which are much like attractors in ANN's).
>
> -- Ben
>
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