Re: Wrong Procedure

"Rick Craik" <rick@@icebergideas..com> wrote in message
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> "Dave Ulmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >                          Wrong Procedure
> >
> >  Knowledge (that stuff that is written in books) comes in various
> > flavors or types. The main types True and False are obvious to
> > anyone who has ever lied or been lied to.
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> [I believe you are expressing concerns about extending the
> intelligence capabilities of the human by artificial means, and not
> concerned about what knowledge philosophically is to a system.
> My concerns are about the capabilities that we have to give to a
> system that is not an extension to the human capabilities, more
> of a stand-alone intelligence system.]
>
> How about books just being a source of information to acquire
> knowledge? Information has True and False properties. It would
> take a system with an intelligence ability to have knowledge, books
> do not have any abilities like this. I would say that knowledge is not
> "that stuff that is written in books". But from your perspective,
> information in the book, plus the human ability to understand the
> book comprise finding that there is knowledge in books.

Actually information is just another type of knowledge like true, false, and
procedural. Information is a carrier of knowledge. A book may contain
knowledge about boat building, this knowledge is carried to the reader via
words written in the English language. This stream of words is the
information that informs you about the knowledge of boat building.


Dave...