"Critique of pure reason" isn't just a book by Immanuel Kant, it's also a 1987 essay on AI by Drew McDermott.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8640.1987.tb00183.x …
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From Shirky (2003): "[they] greatly overestimate the value of deductive reasoning (a persistent theme in Artificial Intelligence projects generally.) The great popularizer of this error was Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories..."
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"...have done more damage to people's understanding of human intelligence than anyone other than Rene Descartes. Doyle has convinced generations of readers that what seriously smart people do when they think is to arrive at inevitable conclusions by linking antecedent facts."
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So, you mean that the path to enlightment in A.I. passses through an epistemological disruption. Makes sense even more if we consider the complexity of open systems, as Bertallanfy stated in 1950.
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I am not against the concept of ‘thinking’ as discerning between multiple causal paths. What is wrong with that?
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We make conclusions based on 2 levels of intelligence. The first is derived from weightings. X has more weight therefore is more prominent in my mental search. The second is based on attaching labels like x = "correct" so I will pick that regardless of any weight.
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representing meaning for machines has not been done by DL or any state of the art methodology.
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Logic is a tool to analyze human reasoning and to see whether it is consistent. In particular, you cannot use arguments to back a claim if those arguments are inconsistent. However a system first needs to be able to make some meaningful claims in order to be analyzed logically.
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