Margin Notes On 22.5 "Inference"


Trans-frames can be used to modify chains of reasoning to permit new types of deduction in the absence of logic. But this move requires recognition that trans-frames can be applied to terms that are not perfect matches. "By learning to manipualte our isonomes, we become able to combine mental representations into structures that resemble bridges, chains and towers. Our language-agencies learn to express these in the form of compound sentences."

NB: All of this requires what Minsky calls 'conceptualization' -- treating mental processes as though they were object-things. Is this kind of reflexiveness possible in other (or even most other) architectural proposals?


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