Artificial Intelligence

I saw a program on artificial intelligence at a university. Students spent hours typing facts into a computer where learning was done by inferring things or sythesizing related facts like: "The sun is hot.", "The sun appears yellow.", and "A sun flower appears yellow." And then, another group of students would read through the newly created "facts" and remove such inferences as "Sunflowers are hot."

Intelligence in humans works about the same way as we observe it in our children. In a Western Civilization class I had a reading assignment of Rosseau's "Tabula Rasa", I believe. In it was taught, or explored, the notion that we are all born with blank slates which are filled by sensation and reflection.

It was while I made a reflection on two different, trusted sources of information that I concluded that the people around here do not know that the water stinks! It really does, likewise, they are apt to think we smell bad out east. There is a song "Love song for a vampire" Where the concept I had thought for a long time about gravity came clear. "for it is the sound of sounds. It is the drum of drums." things can be constantly present so much so that we do not recognize them.

Until an apple fell on Newton's head, everyone just lived with the fact that things fell. It was not ever questioned, it just was.

I hate to wash my clothes or dishes because, to me they smell worse. I have to use excessive amounts of shampoo, as well. I remember visiting my sister's houses and thinking everything smelled so good. And when People visited me, they said they could tell that I had been baking. I suppose I am immune to this. Though I can further explain how this phenomenon is used to sell houses. It is believed that you ought to paint, install new carpet and fill the home with the aroma of freshly baked bread to get a buyer.