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  1. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    Graph databases do exactly that. They store the association between objects, whether those objects are categories or instances.
  2. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    That, on its own, makes no sense. What you say next about "car" being related to many other concepts does make sense, and is very likely the mechanism behind how human memory works, but that association-graph doesn't require the thing's hardware to be distributed at all. If it did, graph...
  3. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    As much as I could understand that at all, it didn't seem to explain why what I said was ambigious. :help:
  4. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    And we've not tried even a fraction of algorithms, techniques and ideas. Can you elaborate on why we have to reject them? Remember, the brain is not dealing with arbitary-sized data, so bad complexity in the limit of increasingly large parameters isn't necessarily a problem. I'm talking about...
  5. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    "unbounded amount of spacetime." A slowdown factor of 2^n is irrelavent for the purposes of whether or not its computable.
  6. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    For all I know, once you decode the actual model that the brain is running/building, you could implement it on a machine from 2003. The fact that we don't have an effective learning algorithm means that we don't know how much "real" computing power is needed to run it, and what scale it can run...
  7. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    Computing power is not synonymous with learning ability. :facepalm: Quantum mechanics is computable. Therefore, to say that the brain is not is to deviate from standard physics quite severely.
  8. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    P vs NP has very little to do with capacity for parallel programming. Having more than one processor can only ever speed up your computation by a constant factor, whereas P vs. NP is a statement about the fundamental lowest possible speed that its possible to recognise vs. find answers to...
  9. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    Opcodes are the lowest level, and even they can be represented within the computer system by statements about how the computer's state transforms. Everything higher up than that can be represented "natively." This includes structures that represent (that is, has the properties of) notions such...
  10. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    So what about, say, arithmetic on the range [-2^63, 2^63-1] is "incapable of being extended to actual object[s]"? (Assuming that integers are actual objects in themselves.) ...which can be unpacked and analyzed into, e.g. data structures, pre-conditions, post-conditions, etc. In a framework with...
  11. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    No, I equate objects in code with the properties they hold to. :D The difference is subtle, but vastly important. Any sort of mathematical representation is an abstraction - all mathematical objects are abstract, and defined in terms of propertise, not what they "really" are. Until you get...
  12. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    I disagree, because I think you're arbitarily declaring that, and ignoring that every single entity within a OOP computer system represents a concept. Human consideration of concrete objects is quite clearly made in terms of instances of classes, and that thinking can be modelled trivially in a...
  13. PolyHedral

    i saw an equation in my dreams lastnight! opinions?

    Good luck doing the same thing with trascendental numbers.
  14. PolyHedral

    i saw an equation in my dreams lastnight! opinions?

    3+(-1) does not equal 3.
  15. PolyHedral

    i saw an equation in my dreams lastnight! opinions?

    If you have no pencils, and I have three pencils, do we have more or less pencils when we put them together?
  16. PolyHedral

    What is free will?

    Also, do remember: We do what we must because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. ;)
  17. PolyHedral

    What is free will?

    And presumably something led you to want to sleep.
  18. PolyHedral

    do you believe that there are other creatures in universe, or just in the earth ?

    Remember, just because its possible to talk to aliens doesn't mean they're paying attention. ;)
  19. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    Oi, misleading statistic. :p Older papers are going to be cited more by virtue of both being older, but also more basic. Yes, this is both to be expected and very cool. It's a logical consequence of humans not being the only possible intelligence. :p Psssst. FPGAs. :D Whether or not hardware...
  20. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    I don't agree with any of that. The second one especially is drawing far too strong a conclusion from its argument.
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