Views
Graph
Explorer
Focus
Down
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Load 4 levels
Load all levels
All
Dagre
Focus
Down
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Load 4 level
Load all levels
All
Tree
SpaceTree
Focus
Expanding
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Down
All
Down
Radial
Focus
Expanding
Load 1 level
Load 2 levels
Load 3 levels
Down
All
Down
Box
Focus
Expanding
Down
Up
All
Down
Page ✓
Article
Outline
Document
Down
All
Canvas
Time
Timeline
Calendar
Request email digest
Past 24 hours
Past 2 days
Past 3 days
Past week
Add
Add page
Add comment
Add citation
Edit
Edit page
Delete page
Share
Link
Bookmark
Embed
Social media
Login
Member login
Register now for a free account
🔎
Douglas Hofstadter
Protagoniste
1
#2781
Arguments advanced by Douglas Hofstadter.
Immediately related elements
How this works
-
Artificial Intelligence »
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence☜A collaboratively editable version of Robert Horns brilliant and pioneering debate map Can Computers Think?—exploring 50 years of philosophical argument about the possibility of computer thought.☜F1CEB7
▲
Protagonists »
Protagonists
Protagonists☜The contributions of over 300 protagonists can be explored via a surname search, or using the growing list developing here.☜D3B8AB
■
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter☜Arguments advanced by Douglas Hofstadter.☜D3B8AB
►
ACME doesn't understand analogy »
ACME doesn't understand analogy
ACME doesn't understand analogy☜All ACME does is take algebraic sentences in predicate logic notaiton and compare them. For example, it only understands that Socrates is like a midwife to the extent that it understands that (a(b)), (c(d)) is similar to (A(B)), (C(D)).☜FFFACD
►
Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
All encompassing representations can't be processed »
All encompassing representations can't be processed
All encompassing representations can't be processed☜The all purpose representation a front-end module would provide to a computer model would have to encode a vast amount of information, enough to adapt to all contexts and analogies it might be used in—making it too bulky for efficient processing.☜FFFACD
►
Perception depends on analogy »
Perception depends on analogy
Perception depends on analogy☜How we see things depends in part on what high level analogical processes we use—eg Saddam Hussein will be perceived differently depending on whether he is viewed as analogous to Adolf Hitler (ruthless aggressor) or Robin Hood (generous crusader).☜FFFACD
►
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations »
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations☜SME creates analogies using high-level representations that are strucured with those specific analogies in mind. Its behaviour provides no evidence for intelligence because the analogies it discovers are already built into the data it works with.☜FFFACD
►
Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
SME too rigid in its distinctions »
SME too rigid in its distinctions
SME too rigid in its distinctions☜In order for its analogical mapings to work, SME assumes a rigid distinction between objects, attributes, and relations. But it is unclear whether humans make such a rigid distinction.☜FFFACD
►
Treatment of relations too rigid »
Treatment of relations too rigid
Treatment of relations too rigid☜In SME, relations are treated as n-place predicates that can only be mapped to other n-place predicates. But it is unlikely that human mind is so rigid in its treatment of relational mappings. ☜FFFACD
►
Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
Gestalt properties implemented recursively »
Gestalt properties implemented recursively
Gestalt properties implemented recursively☜Recursive loops can explain the Gestalt figure-ground relationship. Recursive loops allow the background of an image to be constructed as a complement (or opposition) to the figure.☜FFFACD
►
METACAT »
METACAT
METACAT ☜The COPYCAT program—see Map 1—could in principle be developed into a new program called METACAT. Metacat would have the reflexive ability to recognise the truth of its own Gödel sentence and could thereby evade the Lucas argument.☜FFFACD
►
Lucas uses a faulty way of identifying differences »
Lucas uses a faulty way of identifying differences
Lucas uses a faulty way of identifying differences☜The Whiteley sentence reveals a flaw in Lucass argument relating to a problem of perspective (see detailed text).☜FFFACD
►
Inconsistency without explosion of belief »
Inconsistency without explosion of belief
Inconsistency without explosion of belief☜Lucass argument depends on the assumption that if humans were inconsistent, they would be committed to believing anything and everything. But this conclusion follows from a rule of propositional logic we have no reason to believe holds for humans.☜FFFACD
►
Common sense and connectionism »
Common sense and connectionism
Common sense and connectionism ☜Commonsense reasoning in humans is best explained by a mental topology of conceptual halos, which can be understood, in the subsymbolic framework, as overlapping regions in the abstract space.☜FFFACD
►
Front-end Assumption is dubious »
Front-end Assumption is dubious
Front-end Assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
The ELIZA effect »
The ELIZA effect
The ELIZA effect☜The ELIZA effect is a tendency to read more into computer performance than is warranted by their underlying code—e.g. the psychotherapy program ELIZA gives apparently sympathetic responses, but in fact is only utilizing a set of canned responses.☜FFFACD
Heading
Summary
Click the button to enter task scheduling information
Open
Details
Enter task details
Message text
Select assignee(s)
Due date (click calendar)
RadDatePicker
RadDatePicker
Open the calendar popup.
Calendar
Title and navigation
Title and navigation
<<
<
April 2025
>
<<
April 2025
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
14
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
15
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
16
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
17
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
18
27
28
29
30
1
2
3
19
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Reminder
No reminder
1 day before due
2 days before due
3 days before due
1 week before due
Ready to post
Copy to text
Enter
Cancel
Task assignment(s) have been emailed and cannot now be altered
Lock
Cancel
Save
Comment graphing options
Choose comments:
Comment only
Whole thread
All comments
Choose location:
To a new map
To this map
New map options
Select map ontology
Options
Standard (default) ontology
College debate ontology
Hypothesis ontology
Influence diagram ontology
Story ontology
Graph to private map
Cancel
Proceed
+Commentaires (
0
)
- Commentaires
Ajouter un commentaire
Newest first
Oldest first
Show threads
+Citations (
0
)
- Citations
Ajouter une citation
List by:
Citerank
Map
+About
- About
Entrée par:
David Price
NodeID:
#2781
Node type:
Protagonist
Date d'entrée (GMT):
7/20/2007 6:14:00 PM
Date de la dernière modification (Heure GMT):
7/20/2007 6:14:00 PM
Show other editors
Corrélations entrantes:
0
Corrélations sortantes:
16
Evaluation moyenne:
0
by
0
utilisateurs
x
Select file to upload
label
label
Drop files here
Immediately related elements
How this works
-
Artificial Intelligence »
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence☜A collaboratively editable version of Robert Horns brilliant and pioneering debate map Can Computers Think?—exploring 50 years of philosophical argument about the possibility of computer thought.☜F1CEB7
▲
Protagonists »
Protagonists
Protagonists☜The contributions of over 300 protagonists can be explored via a surname search, or using the growing list developing here.☜D3B8AB
■
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter☜Arguments advanced by Douglas Hofstadter.☜D3B8AB
►
ACME doesn't understand analogy »
ACME doesn't understand analogy
ACME doesn't understand analogy☜All ACME does is take algebraic sentences in predicate logic notaiton and compare them. For example, it only understands that Socrates is like a midwife to the extent that it understands that (a(b)), (c(d)) is similar to (A(B)), (C(D)).☜FFFACD
►
Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
All encompassing representations can't be processed »
All encompassing representations can't be processed
All encompassing representations can't be processed☜The all purpose representation a front-end module would provide to a computer model would have to encode a vast amount of information, enough to adapt to all contexts and analogies it might be used in—making it too bulky for efficient processing.☜FFFACD
►
Perception depends on analogy »
Perception depends on analogy
Perception depends on analogy☜How we see things depends in part on what high level analogical processes we use—eg Saddam Hussein will be perceived differently depending on whether he is viewed as analogous to Adolf Hitler (ruthless aggressor) or Robin Hood (generous crusader).☜FFFACD
►
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations »
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations
Analogies only drawn from pre-structured representations☜SME creates analogies using high-level representations that are strucured with those specific analogies in mind. Its behaviour provides no evidence for intelligence because the analogies it discovers are already built into the data it works with.☜FFFACD
►
Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
SME too rigid in its distinctions »
SME too rigid in its distinctions
SME too rigid in its distinctions☜In order for its analogical mapings to work, SME assumes a rigid distinction between objects, attributes, and relations. But it is unclear whether humans make such a rigid distinction.☜FFFACD
►
Treatment of relations too rigid »
Treatment of relations too rigid
Treatment of relations too rigid☜In SME, relations are treated as n-place predicates that can only be mapped to other n-place predicates. But it is unlikely that human mind is so rigid in its treatment of relational mappings. ☜FFFACD
►
Front-end assumption is dubious »
Front-end assumption is dubious
Front-end assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
Gestalt properties implemented recursively »
Gestalt properties implemented recursively
Gestalt properties implemented recursively☜Recursive loops can explain the Gestalt figure-ground relationship. Recursive loops allow the background of an image to be constructed as a complement (or opposition) to the figure.☜FFFACD
►
METACAT »
METACAT
METACAT ☜The COPYCAT program—see Map 1—could in principle be developed into a new program called METACAT. Metacat would have the reflexive ability to recognise the truth of its own Gödel sentence and could thereby evade the Lucas argument.☜FFFACD
►
Lucas uses a faulty way of identifying differences »
Lucas uses a faulty way of identifying differences
Lucas uses a faulty way of identifying differences☜The Whiteley sentence reveals a flaw in Lucass argument relating to a problem of perspective (see detailed text).☜FFFACD
►
Inconsistency without explosion of belief »
Inconsistency without explosion of belief
Inconsistency without explosion of belief☜Lucass argument depends on the assumption that if humans were inconsistent, they would be committed to believing anything and everything. But this conclusion follows from a rule of propositional logic we have no reason to believe holds for humans.☜FFFACD
►
Common sense and connectionism »
Common sense and connectionism
Common sense and connectionism ☜Commonsense reasoning in humans is best explained by a mental topology of conceptual halos, which can be understood, in the subsymbolic framework, as overlapping regions in the abstract space.☜FFFACD
►
Front-end Assumption is dubious »
Front-end Assumption is dubious
Front-end Assumption is dubious☜Models that use pre-configured representations and hand-tailored data assume that a separate front-end module could be built that would filter sensory data into the models representational form.☜FFFACD
►
The ELIZA effect »
The ELIZA effect
The ELIZA effect☜The ELIZA effect is a tendency to read more into computer performance than is warranted by their underlying code—e.g. the psychotherapy program ELIZA gives apparently sympathetic responses, but in fact is only utilizing a set of canned responses.☜FFFACD