On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:54:35 -0500, "Paul D. Fernhout" pdfernhout@kurtz-fernhout.com wrote:
There is some sort of mismatch going on here between the mind and Smalltalk's object model. What it is in its entirety I am not sure. But clearly the tools at hand in Smalltalk-80 can't match the minds flexibility in object-oriented (and other) modeling. Yet it is very much a stated design goal in Dan's original paper to have the Smalltalk software environment be a good match for how the mind actually works. So, here, as exemplified by humor, we have a mismatch. Essentially, Smalltalk code isn't funny. :-)
I'm working on some serious AI research right now, using Squeak (of course). My idea of the brain (in terms of how we model it) is a virtual machine, with very little Smalltalk code, and huge amounts of data that gets stored and indexed. You can't model things like humor and emotions and such in code - it gets modeled in data.
http://www.bioloid.info/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=MicroRaptor if anyone is interested...
Later, Jon
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