At 12:17 PM 6/16/2007, you wrote:
>Barry
>I thought you'd find that paper a good example :-)
>
>
>anyway, I meditated on what Azamat is saying> I think I understand
>what you have in mind there -
>
>Azamat is saying that, assuming 'perfect' knowledge representation
>and semantic notation, we would not need to 'figure out' (conceive,
>think of ) models of reality
>(why paint the sky?)
>We would simply be able to query our systems, maybe select the
>entities and a few constraints,and machine could produce a pretty
>accurate model of reality including inferences and reasoning patterns
>
>is this what you are thinking? (01)
incremental steps towards approximating to this, with the steps based
on empirical evidence of what works -- but I conceive it not as
building models of reality, but as building representations of
reality (analogous to scientific theories, rather than to model trains)
BS (02)
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