From: Raymond G. Van De Walker (rgvandewalker@juno.com)
Date: Sat Jun 12 1999 - 00:31:20 MDT
>What is this "self"
In classic Husserlian phenomenology, the self is the referent of a
grammatical placeholder for the narrator of a viewpoint. (E.g. in "I
see the tree.". The thing denoted by "I" is the self).
Since all symbolic operations proceed by pattern-recognition (I have a
proof, if anyone cares), the self is therefore what recognizes patterns,
establishing a symbolic narrative between an object (picked out of the
noise), and a viewpoint.
If this theory is right, then intelligence should be the process of
establishing reusable scripts from a spontaneous narrative caused by
successive pattern recognition.
AI is therefore a trivial scripting algorithm driven by 2nd-order
pattern-recognition. i.e. recognizing patterns in scripts, as well as
IRL, and then selecting scripts whose early conditions match the current
states of affairs, and then sorting scripts for the best-payoff, and
picking the best-paying script, and then performing the narrator's part.
And yes, it can be wrong.
Ray Van De Walker rgvandewalker@juno.com
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