- ...Science?
- We are
indebted to John
McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Bill Rapaport,
Pat Hayes, David Musser, Stevan Harnad,
and Ron Noel for helpful conversations (and debates!) about issues
bearing on this piece.
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- ...explain.
- Our explanation, coming
as it does in the form of gedanken-experiments, is intended to
be a colorful encapsulation of a formal treatment
of AI's connectionist-logicist clash, part of which
one of us has provided elsewhere [3].
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- ...COG.
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any number
of ``intelligence without representation and reasoning" projects
could stand in for COG in our fable.
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- ...sentience.
- Lest it be
thought that the ratiocination of Sherlock
Holmes is a phenomenon confined to the world of fiction, we direct readers
to real-life detective deduction - like
that used by Robert N. Anderson [7] to
recently solve the
80 year-old mystery of what caused the fire that destroyed Jack London's
``Wolf House" in 1913. Wolf House was to be London's ``manly" residence,
a 15,000 square foot structure composed of quarried volcanic rock and
raw beams from ancient redwoods. The conflagration occurred just days
before London was to move in, and though London vowed to rebuild, he
died three years later with the house still in ruins.
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- ...connectionist.
- For a technical survey of these systems, see our
[2], a preprint of which is available on Bringsjord's web site.
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- ...AI.
- For a more detailed analysis of the Silver
Blaze story, see [1].
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