From: chief@ockhamstyle.com   
      
   Eray Ozkural exa wrote:   
      
   > When I looked at the top level ontology of Cyc, it seemed to me as a   
   > collection of diverse statements written in a CLOS-like class based   
   > description language. Hand-coding life like that seemed hopeless to   
   > me.   
      
      
   You're absolutely right! Useful AI carrier must extract knowledge   
   without human-expert-medium using NL conversation with other knowledge   
   carriers.   
      
   And in addition CYC declares COMMON SENSE KNOWLEDGE but don't have a   
   constructive definition what is COMMON SENSE KNOWLEDGE.   
      
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