Re: Logics at multiple levels of abstraction

From: H C (lphege@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 10:36:17 MDT


>From: Phil Goetz <philgoetz@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: sl4@sl4.org
>To: sl4@sl4.org
>Subject: Re: Logics at multiple levels of abstraction
>Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:38:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
>--- Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/12/05, Richard Loosemore <rpwl@lightlink.com> wrote:
> > > Lastly, you say: "However, I suggest that in an AGI system,
> > logical
> > > reasoning may exist BOTH as a low-level wired-in subsystem AND as a
> > > high-level emergent phenomenon, and that these two aspects of logic
> > in
> > > the AGI system may be coordinated closely together." If it really
> > did
> > > that, it would (as I understand it) be quite a surprise (to put it
> > > mildly) ... CAS systems do not as a rule show that kind of weird
> > > reflection, as I said in my earlier posts.
> >
> > I'm not sure I can reconcile these two opinions. If you think it's
> > feasible to use some sort of logical reasoning, (whether rational
> > probability analysis or something else,) as part of the basic
> > substrate of a generally intelligent system, and given that any
> > successful AI project would necessarily result with a system that
> > *does* exhibit logical reasoning at a high level, how could you find
> > it unlikely that a system would combine both features? I probably
> > misunderstand you.
>
>I don't think (speaking for Richard :) he's objecting to the two
>being in one system. I think he's objecting to the notion that
>features of the lower-level logic will be mirrored in the higher-level
>logic. I agree; regarding an interaction like that:

I disagree. You could use a single logic procedure-structure with multiple
levels (more complexity) of concept representation, like concepts
representing direct logic procedures that could operate in some abstract
sense on their input concepts. Not to be speculating without scientific
basis, but it appears to me that humans do this.

>
>- it would be unlikely to appear by chance
>- if it did appear by chance, it would suggest
> that you hadn't separated levels in your design properly
>- if you designed it in, it would make your design a rotten
> design from an engineering standpoint.
>

What makes this a rotten design?

-- Th3Hegem0n

>- Phil Goetz
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