Okay, so I am trying to understand what you are attacking here, and I assume you mean my presentation of that paper at the 2007 AGIRI workshop.
Let me see: you reduced the entire paper to the statement that I yelled “Complexity! Irreducible! Parallel!”.
Hmmmm...… that sounds like you thoroughly understood the paper and read it in great detail, because you reflected back all the arguments in the paper, showed good understanding of the cognitive science, AI and complex-systems context, and gave me a thoughtful, insightful list of comments on some of the errors of reasoning that I made in the paper.
So I guess you are right. I am ignorant. I have not been doing research in cognitive psychology, AI and complex systems for 20 years (as of the date of that workshop). I have nothing to say to defend any of my ideas at all, when people make points about what is wrong in those ideas. And, worse still, I did not make any suggestions in that paper about how to solve the problem I described, except to say “HEY NEURAL NETS LEARN WELL”.
I wish you had been around when I wrote the paper, because I could have reduced the whole thing to one 3-word and one 5-word sentence, and saved a heck of a lot of time.
P.S. I will forward your note to the Santa Fe Institute and the New England Complex Systems Institute, so they can also understand that they are ignorant. I guess we can expect an unemployment spike in Santa Fe and Boston, next month, when they all resign en masse.
Okay, so I am trying to understand what you are attacking here, and I assume you mean my presentation of that paper at the 2007 AGIRI workshop.
Let me see: you reduced the entire paper to the statement that I yelled “Complexity! Irreducible! Parallel!”.
Hmmmm...… that sounds like you thoroughly understood the paper and read it in great detail, because you reflected back all the arguments in the paper, showed good understanding of the cognitive science, AI and complex-systems context, and gave me a thoughtful, insightful list of comments on some of the errors of reasoning that I made in the paper.
So I guess you are right. I am ignorant. I have not been doing research in cognitive psychology, AI and complex systems for 20 years (as of the date of that workshop). I have nothing to say to defend any of my ideas at all, when people make points about what is wrong in those ideas. And, worse still, I did not make any suggestions in that paper about how to solve the problem I described, except to say “HEY NEURAL NETS LEARN WELL”.
I wish you had been around when I wrote the paper, because I could have reduced the whole thing to one 3-word and one 5-word sentence, and saved a heck of a lot of time.
P.S. I will forward your note to the Santa Fe Institute and the New England Complex Systems Institute, so they can also understand that they are ignorant. I guess we can expect an unemployment spike in Santa Fe and Boston, next month, when they all resign en masse.