tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702834614503056110.post8554333729749014280..comments2007-12-25T22:59:51.282-03:00Alexandre Linharesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702834614503056110.post-49551244226561712322007-12-25T22:59:00.000-03:002007-12-25T22:59:00.000-03:00I mean classes and objects in the computer programming sense. It seems that the philosophical doctrine of metaphysical realism has dominated the field, and it has in many other fields. This poses a metaphysics in which a set of objects, properties, and relations exist outside of any understanding. So an object has a fixed set of properties and relations. For example, DNA is a molecule with particular the properties and relations stemming from the laws of Physics and Chemistry.<BR/><BR/>However, when we say that DNA is like a computer program, or that DNA is like the blueprint of life, or DNA is like a staircase, or DNA is like a zipper, something cognitively important is going on.<BR/><BR/>We are transferring some properties and relations to a molecule, from semantically distinct stuff. So how can something that has properties and relations far outside the realm of chemistry transfer these to a molecule? This is what we are working on, the very basic infrastructure in which computer programs may be able to acquire these, based on contextual information. FARG does this in copycat, tabletop, letter spirit, phaeaco, and so on. But only to a certain extent, and in a way in which I view as very ad-hoc. Case by case.<BR/><BR/>I think we found a beautiful way to do it, and that, if we are correct, it will be at least 50% easier to build new farg architectures.<BR/><BR/>We'll have more about this soon.Alexandre Linhareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410281998806896354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702834614503056110.post-87993945387607669542007-12-25T14:50:00.000-03:002007-12-25T14:50:00.000-03:00Classes and Objects? You mean, hammers,nails, wood and saws? For me it seems some 24 (if not 42) levels BELOW the level which is actually required. And what is required is "FLUID infrastructure". Again: Deleuze has written some 40 years ago about abstraction, coming from Leibniz (you know, the guy who mentioned to create a thinking machine by means of combinatorics;)<BR/><BR/>happy day!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com