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   On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:05:23 GMT, Ted Dunning wrote:   
      
   > The rule of experience is that AI systems do not live or die based on   
   > their theoretical foundations, but rather on how many man-centuries are   
   > invested in creating them.   
      
   True, but that just means that there is no any great theoretical   
   foundations of AI.   
      
   > Category theory is very unlikely to actually provide much insight into   
   > building real systems precisely because it is so meta-theoretical.  The   
   > basic problem is that cognition doesn't appear to be all that much like   
   > physics.   
      
   It is no more "meta" than the notion of cognition itself. In fact, it is   
   much less. Provided, that we just don't know how cognition works. Maybe   
   cognition theory could be less like stamp collecting and more like physics,   
   if we knew? Or there is a fundamental barrier that a cognitive system   
   cannot be engineered and built, but only grown and educated.   
      
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   Dmitry A. Kazakov   
   http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de   
      
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