From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 2:45 AM To: Jeffrey E. Cc: Joscha Bach Subject: Re: On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:04 AM, jeffrey E. [email protected]> wrote: > im aware of the goals . i have yet to see deliverables. . Fair enough.... But we have learned and understood a lot through our work so far, which is important.... I understand the problem far better than I did 15 years ago and my planned solution is sketched out in far more detail, and I have a better team at work on the problem... All this anticipation will make the victory even sweeter once it arrives ;-) > babys learn > any one of a multitude of languages. this is less about intelligence and > more about brain architecutre . Architecture is an aspect of intelligence ---- in essence, an architecture encapsulates a prior distribution over possible worlds, which helps guide action to be intelligent (assuming that the worlds where the actions occur, are reasonably likely ones in the distribution implied by the architecture) >how do brains take signals, minimize > noiise and make cohenrent mental objects. images. language. tounch > smell. temporal ccomponents. maybe music analogy. . structure of > language. , illusions in each sense. ambiguity in each. ? ( maybe an > insight). im going to clean my house. ( interior > exterior?. im going > to paint my house. exterior. . visual lady and vase. ambiguity might > lead to underlying process.. it is easy to choose which note does not > beling to a new musical piece. . heard for the first time.? odd. The particular cases may feel odd to us from our subjective views, but the general principles are not hard to see.... Brains recognize patterns in their inputs, actions and states; and coherent mental objects are complex, self-consistent, compact bundles of interrelated patterns.. The challenge is to get all this pattern recognition to work effectively given available computational resources, using hardwar