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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
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Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument
Summary: Room enough for learning new ideas.
Keywords: Introspection
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Date: 5 Mar 89 09:20:47 GMT
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In article <3369@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
(Greg Lee) writes:

 > "I finally understood Harnad at 3pm."

Aha!  This piece of evidence confirms my theory that we use the
word "understand" to mean "able to gain understanding" (as opposed
to "has a fixed amount of understanding").

Evidently, we are using the positive first derivative of the
function K(t) to denote understanding, where K(t) is the accumulated
Knowledge as a function of time.

Curiously, I define "information" as delta K, and "learning"
or "knowledge acquisition" as dK/dt.

But the most interesting part of this model, is that I measure
emotional intensity, E, the same way:

	 E(t) = dK(t)/dt

Understand?

--Barry Kort