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Re: [ontolog-forum] to concept or not to concept, is this a question?

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From: KCliffer@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:00:21 EDT
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I just realized that Paola expressed essentially the same idea as what I just sent about Azamat's thoughts.
 
In a message dated 6/15/2007 8:14:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Azamat,

thanks. I do not disagree with anything below. The correct use of concepts, and derived terms, is indeed in the mind, not in the machine, obviously.

However for humans to formalize the 'sensible signs' that you refer to, conceptualization
of thoughts in their mind is a necessary step.

In fact, before humans can produce something that machine can use, a lot of conceptualization get scrapped (iterations)

Eventually, after refinement, concepts take a shape that can be consistently expressed and
 via diagrams, notation. languages, etc
What the machine will interpret, has to be first processed in the human mind
And concepts are a device for that processing to take place, imho...

PDM

On 6/15/07, Azamat Abdoullaev <abdoul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paola,

Try to explain your concerns in a more systematic way. Knowledge systems, as
semantic web applications, thinking machines, etc., are all designed to be
using ''sensible'' signs (physical signals, codes, or words) in order to
process and communicate information about things, processes, facts, rules,
laws, feelings, ideas, thoughts, or concepts.

Unlike the human brain, in the intelligent machines the symbolic codes
signify things directly without the agency of concepts, constructs, notions,
categories or abstractions. This means that the nature of mechanical meaning
is dependent on the types of symbols and the kinds of things these symbols
denote (symbolize, stand for or name) or represent. And that knowledge
machines are devoid of mental experience or meaningful mental constructs.

The symbols processed by the mechanical intelligence are the signs of
entities and hence they get their significance  without the mediation of the
conceptions of human intellect ( note, the signification, not meaning; for
the symbol signifies, via denotation and representation, while the construct
means, via sense and reference). That is why the significance of symbols is
rather to come directly from the real objects denoted and their
relationships connoted, thus leaving off all the conceptual troubles
discommoding human beings.

With best regards,

Azamat
 
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