[Inquiry] Re: Peirce's Logic Of Information

[Jon Awbrey]

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PLOI.  Note 18

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Imaginary dialogues with a person lacking the sense X may lead us
to explicate those of our hidden assumptions and implicit beliefs
that we fail to share with persons lacking the sense X, but leave
unexamined those of our taken-for-granteds that we have in common
even with persons lacking the sense X.  To have a truly senseless
dialogue, it takes a computer, and that is one of the benefits to
come from many years of trying to teach rocks of silicon to think,
as we do in artificial intelligence research, or at least, that's
how it was in the early days, before we succeeded in predisposing
our computing machineries to so many of our unthinking prejudices.

But luckily I can still remember some of the things that I learned in
the early days of building a "zeroth order ontological modeler" (ZOOM),
and trying to acquaint it with my environment by telling it everything
it forced me to realize I already knew, or at least thought that I did.

It all comes back to me a bit tardily though, so out to lunch for now ...

ZOOM^3 ...

Jon Awbrey

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