From: roger schank To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Today's discussion Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:23:18 +0000 in case you asking about the people mentioned if john anderson is doing cognitive modeling its news to me; my colleague bob abelson used to say john had 200 IQ disease (so msart he couldnt think clearly) Pat Langley knows noting as far as I can tell Irene pepperberg used to be hot; isnt now; was never that bright never met damassio; people say he is very smart aaron sloman was the wrongest AI person I ever knew put all these people in a room and you will get waht you got at teh last VI thing academics like to debate angels on teh head of a pin which this seems another one of put like minded people in a room and ask them to come up with a plan to build something and you ahev a chance On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:17 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: waste? Forwarded message From: Joscha Bach <1 Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:42 PM Subject: Re: Today's discussion To: "S.M. Kosslyn" Cc: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Dear Stephen, thank you for your so far unending patience in that discussion. --> http://www.xkcd.com/386/ >> I agree, and yet only a subset of animals can use symbols for communication. > communication and intelligence are not the same thing (think about bees etc) >> Of these, only a small subset can make use of negation, conjunctions and disjunction in symbolic communication (for instance, Irene Pepperberg's famous grey parrots). It appears that only humans can learn rich grammatical language, and I suspect that this is the primary enabler of our superior problem solving EFTA00652861