ICA (RE: The Relevance of Complex Systems)_

From: Phil Goetz (philgoetz@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 10:32:42 MDT


--- Mikko Särelä <msarela@cc.hut.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> > An AGI needs a concept/hypothesis formation approach that plays
> well with
> > probabilistic inference, but I have never seen an adequate
> > concept/hypothesis formation method that's based solely on
> probabilistic
> > concepts. Do you have one that you'd care to discuss?
>
> Have you looked at independent component analysis?
>
> It's not something I really know, but am acquainted with because my
> brother does research on that field. It would seem to be capable of
> hypothesis formation out of 'pure' data. I could be mistaken, though.

ICA lets you unmix signals that have been mixed.
How would you use it to form concepts or hypothesis?

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