<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Eric — Hah!!!</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">If one is to pretend to grasp/model 'general intelligence', one must, perforce, read outside of their area. There are no two ways about this.</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Yes, of course excess reduction is misguided (Einstein's "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.")</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">But I think the central FIS challenge has been to find a suitably reductive (universal) foundation, that includes 'meaning', beyond Shannon's universal signal entropy. I *think* I have succeeded on this front—which then leaves the door open to other interesting twists and turns re AI and AGI.</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">< Looking at the underbelly too long you can get lost in irrelevancies.></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">— And in an opposite way, for better or worse, those 'irrelevancies' are, what? One cannot fully account for Nature's myriad outputs (reductive AND additive, essentially paradoxic 'simple-to-complex') without some uuuh 'magical thinking'? (chaos theory?) . . . we lack a 'mature framing' or nomenclature for suitably addressing such issues(?). But I think this is more of a psychological issue, than a true scientific issue.</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><By the way do you want to continue to copy to fis? My original comment was to you only.></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">— I thought FIS would likely benefit from your note and related links to papers . . . but perhaps I am wrong?</div></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">I follow the example set by Loet who asked (of me, before his passing) that all FIS correspondence be posted.</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Marcus</div></div>
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