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Re: False Knowledge



"Dave Ulmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "OmegaZero2003" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Dave Ulmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > "Neil W Rickert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > "Dave Ulmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > >                 False Knowledge
> > > >
> > > > > The two most basic types of knowledge are True and False and
> everybody
> > > > >knows that.
> > > >
> > > > I think many people would disagree with that.
> > >
> > > That is the first false knowledge they believe.
> > > >
> > > > Most people take "true" as a prerequisite for knowledge, so that
false
> > > > knowledge cannot exist by definition.
> > >
> > > More false knowledge...
> > > >
> > > > Others take knowledge to be abilities, and neither "true" nor
"false"
> > > > are proper characterizations of abilities.
> > >
> > > Abilities are understandings not knowledge, abilities take energy and
> can
> > > therefore be differentiated from static knowledge. Abilities or
> > > understandings use a type of knowledge called procedural which is
> neither
> > > true or false.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > Understanding engines, like computers, have no way of knowing
> whether
> > > the
> > > > >knowledge they are processing is true or false. There is no truth
> > > detector.
> > > >
> > > > You haven't solve the AI problem if your system has no way of
> > > > determining what is true.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The AI problem will never be solved...
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because "Intelligence" is only an "opinion of an observer" of the behavior
> of a system. It is impossible to have an Artifical Opinion, you either
have
> an opinion or you don't.

One can have an opinion about the intelligence of some entity - I agree.

Then can't that opinion be that the intelligence is "artificial"?  I.e.,
that it is not a biological intelligence created/borne via natural means?

>
> AI or AO is impossible!
>
> Dave...
>
>
>





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