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- Subject: Re: reframing
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- [Martin Taylor 930112 11:45]
- (Bruce Nevin 930111 11.11.11 to Rick Marken 930111 09.00)
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- >>Bruce Nevin (Mon 930111 11:11:11) --
- >>
- >>>The following outline of ideas from a fellow BBNer, Al Boulanger,
- >>>seems to me like a fruitful direction to look for certain aspects
- >>>of higher level control and reorganization as involved in
- >>>learning at those levels.
- >>
- >>Having read it I must ask "why"?
- >
- >What goes on when you have an "aha!" experience? Boulanger talks
- >of "housing" a problem in alternative coordinate systems. Viewed
- >from one perspective, a problem is impenetrable; from another,
- >obvious.
-
- Rick,
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- The original from Boulanger was talking about how and why Perceptual Input
- Functions develop as they do, even though he may not have seen it that way.
- If reorganization provides an informationally efficient representation, it
- will stick around. It will be relatively noise-free and thus more readily
- controllable than an informationally inefficient representation.
-
- If my Mac had not been disconnected from the Unix system from which I mail,
- I would by now have posted a working draft I wrote in 1972 on Okham (Occam
- Ogham ...) 's razor that speaks to this point and much else that has been
- passing the net on descriptive models, generative models, and explanation.
- It uses just the same point of view as Boulanger.
-
- When I'm reconnected (which they daily promise) I'll send it out. I had
- intended it as part of the "information leads to PCT" paper on which I am
- working, but it can stand on its own. Then Rick can ask "why" again.
-
- Martin
-