Re: Re: Some references about ontology and analogy: SUO redux
John F. Sowa wrote
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> One point about the Project Halo discussion is the argument for
> chemistry instead of physics: chemistry problems can be stated
> entirely in terms of formulas, but physics problems nearly always
> involve diagrams. But that leads into another issue: I don't
> believe that natural language understanding is possible without
> relating the terms to the geometry of the visual, tactile, and
> motor mechanisms. In fact, that is my recommendation for a
> "Grand Challenge" proposal:
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/ai/gcprop.htm
> Integrating geometrical pattern recognition
> with natural language question answering
http://www.jfsowa.com/ai/gcprop.pdf
> I believe that this is one of the most critical problems that
> must be solved before true AI is possible.
>
> John Sowa