[p2p-research] Building Alliances (basic income and entrepreneurship)

[Michel Bauwens]

ah ...  the happiness and security of a monological universe ...

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:14 AM, J. Andrew Rogers
<reality.miner at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Paul D. Fernhout
> <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
> > Another way to understand this might be to look at some of Marvin
> Minsky's
> > and other's work on multiple representations and artificial intelligence.
> I
> > was at a talk Minsky gave around 1999 where he outlined the idea that the
> > human brain simultaneously kept running several different models of the
> > world (semantic, 3D, 2D, and so on, don't remember for sure which ones he
> > discussed) and kept choosing solutions from one of the model as they were
> > most appropriate. So, there he was talking about building AIs with
> multiple
> > ways of knowing, all going on simultaneously. :-) Mathematical and
> abstract
> > enough for you? :-)
>
>
> You are misunderstanding what you are reading here.  The internal
> abstract representation of all those models is *identical*, it is the
> information that varies from model to model. Semantics and 3D are the
> same structure, you are just organizing the structures around
> different properties of the raw information. It is a local
> optimization with well-understood properties. This is a side-effect of
> ideal intelligence not being possible in this universe (it is
> non-computable).
>
>
> > Only after the fact. Biofilms are theoretically not possible either,
>
>
> Nonsense. You are conflating theoretical possibility with empirical
> evidence.  This is a basic logic error.
>
>
> > Could the same be true for how you say other things, whether disordered
> > amorphous p2p volunteerism, or distributed search, are not theoretically
> > possible, or are certain to fail? :-)
>
>
> You are making some pretty severe category errors here, conflating
> completely unrelated constructs as though they are subject to
> equivalent analysis.
>
> Some things are provably impossible in a strong mathematical sense.
> Nothing proven mathematically has *ever* been invalidated by a fact of
> reality.  There are some things for which we have only proven partial
> properties i.e. we do not know what is potentially possible but we can
> prove that some things are impossible regardless of that fact.  And
> then there is science where nothing is ever proven at all.
>
> There is no aspect of reality that does not obey strict mathematics as
> we understand it. What is possible in the unknown areas of science is
> bounded by what is allowed in mathematics.  That leaves many
> unexplored possibilities, but it also means that we can say with a
> high degree of certainty that some ideas are strictly disallowed even
> without bothering to collect empirical evidence.
>
> Every time someone has pretended that mathematics doesn't apply to
> some aspect of reality, disaster has ensued.
>
>
> --
> J. Andrew Rogers
> realityminer.blogspot.com
>
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