Analogical Reasoning
June 18, 2003
I need to read the paper from John Sowa and Arun Majumdar on Analogical Reasoning pointed out by DannyAyers in a thread on Cyc, analogical reasoning, and intelligence in machines over at the BlueOxen collaboratory. (00018C)
I'm tossing off in my usual uninformed fashion about computers being unable to do real analogy. I need to get myself educated in these areas as analogy underlies my entire attitude toward having a ConceptualNetwork, why reference and acess is more important than machine readable representation in knowledge enhancement, and my general bad attitude toward AI. (00018D)
Update; JackPark recommends The Muse in the Machine by David Gelerenter as relevant. (00018E)
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There's been a lot of work lately on analogy, both in computer science and cognitive science. One good starting place is: (00018F)
Gentner, D., K. J. Holyoak and B. N. Kokinov. (Eds.) 2001. The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (00018G)
Analogy is also the focus of the RLG's research in CogSci? and his software is designed to make analogies. I don't know what the state of his art is, though. (00018H)
http://www.psych.indiana.edu/people/homepages/hofstadter.html (00018I)
heh heh (00018J)
he said 'tossing off' (00018K)
heh heh (00018L)
I made it to about halfway through section four of that paper before becoming distracted by reading "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software". There are some good ideas in the paper; I think I'd really be interested to play with VAE. I wonder if it's FreeSoftware?. (00018R)
DesignPatterns? is good, too. (00018S)