Here is the brochure for IBM Watson..
http://www.research.ibm.com/files/pdfs/2010_IBM_Research_brochure.pdf
( do not miss the soothing landscape picture in one of those pages with water running to the distance just like the way Dutton said..)
pk!
--- On Sun, 2/13/11, Godfrey Rust <godfrey.rust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Godfrey Rust <godfrey.rust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson on Jeopardy
To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 6:04 PM
Rich
Just a qualification on your full-on
postmodernism: there may well be objective universal truth -
unfortunately if there is we have a vanishingly small chance of ever being able
to perceive it adequately, and no chance at all of agreeing on our perceptions
of it, so the practical result is the same.
The stones, of course, may well have realised all
this a long time before us, having been around much longer than we have to
reflect on it, and have wisely decided just to shut up.
.
Godfrey
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson
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Hi
Pavithra,
You
wrote:
If truth is perceived as truth everywhere, lawyers would
be out of work..
How is it possible
that truth could be universal? Truth is ALWAYS personally perceived by
an agent – nonagentive objects, such as stones, just don’t get it since they
can’t discuss truth.
Other agents may
signal their own perception of the same signal, and even agree in discussions
about “the meaning” of the symbol as they two perceive it. It is still a
personally perceived truth, not universal simply because others share some of
our signals.
JMHO,
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT
com
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Dr. Sowa
Plato said "beuty is in
the eye of the beholder"
Dennis Burt said , "Beauty is in
the culturally conditioned mind of the beholder"... ( one of those
motivational speakers for aesthetics
)
http://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.html
Truth
can be heard and seen by those who are seeking.. If
seeking truth does not fit the agenda or criteria, then people do
hear or not hear, see or not see what they hear or see..
If
truth is perceived as truth everywhere, lawyers would be out of
work..
.
Regards,
Pavithra
--- On
Sun, 2/13/11, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: John F.
Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson
on Jeopardy
To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday,
February 13, 2011, 8:18 AM
Vincent and
Rich,
JFS
>> That is also true of people. As the
saying goes, generals are
>> very good at fighting the last
war, but not the current one.
VW
> If that saying were
true, there'd be ZERO
> national security - for any
country.
You need to study military history. The leaders
who win
are the ones who can innovate to meet changing
conditions.
But most leaders in every field aren't innovative --
they
just repeat what worked last time.
RC
> we are
buying a bunch of F-35's to fight international terrorism.
That
is comparable to the French building the Maginot line after WW
I.
It's a hugely expensive waste of money on systems that would
have
been useful in the past.
VW
> I'll just repeat one
of my earlier statements: "There are lots
> of sayings among us
which should be relegated to the past -
> and left there - where
they belong..."
You can repeat that, but it won't make it
true.
A better guideline is one of my favorite quotations
from
Alfred North Whitehead:
"Every great truth
is only half true."
That means that every proverb, principle, or
ideology has
to be re-evaluated in terms of current conditions in
order
to determine which half is appropriate.
The most
dangerous offenders are politicians who repeat
half truths until they
make the voters believe
them.
John
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