What, Why & How do we Know ?
Economist and WSJ Peggy NoonanReviews of Blogging linked from Blogger itself.The words of a friend of Samuel Johnson quoted by Ms Noonan“I meant to be a philosopher, but happiness kept breaking through.” [Post-note – I notice Ms Noonan is part of the team that creates West Wing, the award winning US White House spoof drama. … Continue reading “Happiness Breaking Through – Noonan”
Temporal Intelligence / AI RebootsGood site with some interesting views on “intelligence” in this context.Also a link to an MIT article on AI in the 21st century.From Traveller / EightWings / Louis Savain on comp.ai.philosophy
It had to happen one day.Searches for Ian Glendinning often hit the wrong one (see the “Who is Ian anyway ?” link), however, today I found a link explicitly to me that unfortunately hits the other one. Unlucky Ron.
Link via John Robb’s Radio WebLog from NY Times.Russian Pilot Had Conflicting Orders. A Russian pilot received contradictory instructions before crashing into a cargo plane over Germany last week, German investigators said today after reviewing voice recorders from the two jets. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: International] Interesting says John Robb. “I once … Continue reading “Intuitive Knowledge or Explicit Instruction”
RSS TutorialA Utah Gov Info Locator Service link fromRon Lusk’s Radio WebLog via The Shifted Librarian.(Notice Ron has the Tao of XTM too. – This is a small world. Ron corresponded after picking-up a corruption to my Blogger template after updating the YACCS code. Thanks Ron.)
The significance of Common SenseA quote from Ellis D Cooper’s Dictionary of ConsciousnessStephen C. Pepper – World Hypotheses, A Study in Evidence – 1966 – University of California Press “[ extract only] Our evidence, we showed, indicates that every item of common sense is a dubitandum, a matter that ought to be doubted in the … Continue reading “The Significance of Common Sense”
Upgraded to latest version of YACCS code Quote from Samuel Johnson 1755 in the preface to his dictionary“I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”Which I take to mean don’t forget that words are simply human inventions to … Continue reading “Johnson – Words are the Daughters of Earth”
List of Semantics References by Greg SandersFrom a 1993 Usenet correspondence from Greg Sanders, recently brought to the top of comp.ai.nat-langQuote … the following (alphabetically by author) are some of the booksI have come across that I regard as interesting (omitting material on Montague semantics). I make no claims that this covers the field. I … Continue reading “Semantics References”