Comments on Confessions of a Cyclist: But that's not how people think...

That was just an example - NLP is my favourite fil...

2006-04-29T11:52:00.000-05:00

That was just an example - NLP is my favourite filed of interest, that's why I mentioned it. But very remarkable example - I think that software which doesn't posses knowledge about the world in the form and magnitude of Cyc, won't success in this field.

Moreover - I think that Cyc will.

Best regards
-apohllo

True Cyc is not aimed at recreating the way people...

2006-04-29T10:09:00.000-05:00

True Cyc is not aimed at recreating the way people think. Also true that it or something like it will be an important part of sensible software. Processing linguistic data is only one of the things it will do.

I guess you are interested in philosophy, so you s...

2006-04-29T03:30:00.000-05:00

I guess you are interested in philosophy, so you should know, that this simple functionalist view, is not the only one.

As far, as I can see Cyc is not aimed to recreate the way people are thinking. It's just a ground for any sensible software, which processes linguistic data, such as automatic translation and automatic summaryzing software.

-apohllo

I think too much time is spent trying to recreate ...

2006-04-22T01:10:00.000-05:00

I think too much time is spent trying to recreate the human condition. The irony is that we all take it on faith.

In other words, if we were told that someone had figured out exactly how the human brain works and they had managed to recreate it with a quantum computer it really wouldn't matter.

Because I take on the faith that John De Oliveira is a rational being. I have no