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<p>Hi Marcus,</p>
<p>Glad you looked at the two papers:</p>
<p><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://tark.org/proceedings/tark_mar7_88/p129-werner.pdf__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!SIobdMiWB9YsXMljAepQxCAeuuICFG6BMEcCMohoY1LTD3xgb-j5jX3RDW1jwYNZu9fLwf-NgOeAn7VCOTrTXZI$" target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://tark.org/proceedings/tark_mar7_88/p129-werner.pdf</a>
//published in TARK 1988<br>
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<p><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323030035_Logical_Foundations_of_Distributed_Artificial_Intelligence__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!SIobdMiWB9YsXMljAepQxCAeuuICFG6BMEcCMohoY1LTD3xgb-j5jX3RDW1jwYNZu9fLwf-NgOeAn7VCdwvJHh4$" target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323030035_Logical_Foundations_of_Distributed_Artificial_Intelligence</a>
//published as chapter as shown in the pdf</p>
<p>Seldom people actually read outside their area. And I would not
be too quick to discount their content. <br>
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<p>While I agree with a good bit of reductionism is healthy, but
sometimes it is good to look the whole or end product or goal as
that influences the reductive process. Two stones of the same
material will have vastly different substructures but still can
weigh behave the same in most situations. Looking at the
underbelly too long you can get lost in irrelevancies. The whole
notion of functional state tries to avoid reductionism. So a mix
of both is good. <br>
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<p>By the way do you want to continue to copy to fis? My original
comment was to you only. <br>
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<p>Just a thought</p>
<p>Eric<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/30/25 9:29 PM, Marcus Abundis
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<div dir="auto">Hey Eric,</div>
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<div dir="auto">I looked quickly at the two papers you mentioned.
I think that *ultimately* we hold very sympathetic views. . .
although I also think my project is necessarily more reductive –
that is just my focus at this point in time. I purposely cover a
most basic perspective (a priori, S-O modeling) for GENERAL
informatic meaning and intelligence. I do this as all previous
errors I saw in the literature arise from weakness in grasping
this most essential lower level. Only after lower level errors
are corrected or resolved is it (I think) possible to usefully
frame higher order issues - such as your distributed AI. I feel
there is still much more work to do on this lower level, before
we will see truly firm AI and AGI advances.</div>
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