What ever. That is the problem with human language, simplest statements have a zillion possible unfounded assumptions that are not even well defined nor is the maker of statement even aware of them (or would admit making them, because he didn’t, because he just manipulated symbols).
Take “i think therefore i am”. innocent phrase, something that entirely boxed in blind symbolic ai should be able to think, right? No. Wrong. The “I” is only a meaningful symbol when there’s non-i to separate from i, the “think” when you can do something other than thinking, that you need to separate from thought, via symbol ‘think’; therefore implies the statements where it does not follow, and I am refers to the notion that non-i might exist without I existing. Yet if you say something like this, are you ‘making’ those assumptions? You can say no—they come in pre-made, and aren’t being processed.
What ever. That is the problem with human language, simplest statements have a zillion possible unfounded assumptions that are not even well defined nor is the maker of statement even aware of them (or would admit making them, because he didn’t, because he just manipulated symbols).
Take “i think therefore i am”. innocent phrase, something that entirely boxed in blind symbolic ai should be able to think, right? No. Wrong. The “I” is only a meaningful symbol when there’s non-i to separate from i, the “think” when you can do something other than thinking, that you need to separate from thought, via symbol ‘think’; therefore implies the statements where it does not follow, and I am refers to the notion that non-i might exist without I existing. Yet if you say something like this, are you ‘making’ those assumptions? You can say no—they come in pre-made, and aren’t being processed.