Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tdatirv!sarima
From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Reasoning Paradigms
Message-ID: <19@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:43:47 GMT
References: <9963@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <27116E2C.11522@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine
Lines: 29

In article <27116E2C.11522@orion.oac.uci.edu> jhess@orion.oac.uci.edu (James Hess) writes:
>For example, it seems awkward to reduce "you and I will go to the store, but
>only if it is not raining" to pattern recognition, especially if we look at the
>similarity between that sentance and "you and I will go to the store, but only 
>if it is not after ten o'clock".  How could pattern recognition devoid of 
>symbolic manipulation model the similarity of "after ten o'clock" and 
>"raining" in order to recognize that they both make sense in that context, 
>although one is an external physical phenomena and the other an abstract mental
>construction?  

Except that, as near as I can tell, the source of what we call 'symbols' or
'concepts' in the human brain is a sort of subliminal pattern recognition!
In the brain a 'symbol' or 'concept' is an association between a representation
and a set of patterns, where the association itself is based on a pattern of
co-occurance between the representation and its denotation.

The tendency to talk about time as if it were a place is apparently based on
the recognition of similarities (a pattern) between time and place.
L
I
N
E

C
N
T
-- 
---------------
uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)