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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Therapy for Carbon-Based Neural Networks and Silicon-Based Machines
Message-ID: <1751@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 22 Jun 89 14:31:19 GMT
References: <1420@lzfme.att.com> <1617@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West)
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
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In article <1617@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
>more of an expert system that learns from its Q and A's.  To stay sane,
>such a system would have to remember when and how it learned what it
>thinks it knows.

This is a well-studied problem under the name of "truth
maintenance", and several usable algorithms exist to solve it.