Re: ONT Re: Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems
Jon Awbrey wrote:
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> PRO. Note 46
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> 2. Conceptual Framework
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> 2.1. Systems Theory and Artificial Intelligence
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> If the principles of systems theory are taken seriously in their
> application to AI, and if the tools that have been developed for
> dynamic systems are cast in with the array of techniques that are
> used in AI, a host of difficulties almost instantly arises. One
> obstacle to integrating systems theory and artificial intelligence
> is the bifurcation of approaches that are severally specialized for
> quantitative and qualitative realms, the unavoidable differences
> between real-continuous and boolean-discrete domains. My way of
> circumventing this obstruction will be to extend the compass of
> differential geometry and the rule of logic programming to what
> I see as a locus of natural contact. Continuing the inquiry to
> naturalize intelligent systems as serious subjects of dynamic
> systems theory, a whole series of further questions comes up:
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> 1. What is the proper notion of state?
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> 2. How is the knowledge component,
> the "intellectual property" of
> the state, to be characterized?
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> In accord with customary definitions, the knowledge component would need to be
> represented as a projection onto a knowledge subspace. In those intelligences
> for whom not everything is knowledge, or at least for whom not everything is
> known at once, that is, the great majority of those we are likely to know,
> there must be an alternate projection onto another subspace. Some real
> difficulties begin here which threaten to entangle our own resources
> intelligence of irretrievably.
[...]
Jon,
Before you travel further down this particular path, I wonder if
you'd be so kind as to relate your concept/discussion of "state"
with the concept of "context". Is a "knowledge subspace" a
contextualized space, in the sense of contextualization per a
specific individual, community, or domain, or is it something else?
Thanks,
Murray
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Murray Altheim http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK .
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