Re: Demo: Modelling Cost of Travel Paths Between Towns

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0411181134.4b1933c6_at_posting.google.com...
> >
> > What does it mean to say "[a] user already knows ... likes."
>
> I may have made a poor assumption. I assumed the human mind works more
> like TM/XDb2 then RM because a mind demonstrates extreme flexibility
> to represent things.

Neither you nor anyone else (with the possible exceptions of neurophysiologists experimenting with brain tomography) know *anything* about how the brain *represents* things. The fact that you think thoughts does not mean you know how those thoughts are represented.

> In TM/XDb2, things (ie John, Mary, likes) must
> already be represented before creating the relation "Mary likes John"
> because the relation refers to those things (ie ->Mary ->likes ->John)
> rather than storing the originals in the relation.

Just one problem: "likes" isn't a thing. It's a verb, not a noun.

> Take the blue pill.

You and your pills.

> > If each representation can only appear once in the computer,
> > we can't ever mention anything twice,
>
> After representing a thing once, use a data-independent ref to the
> original thereafter. Below I mention John twice without representing
> him twice:
>
> John // One and only representation of John
> ->Mary ->likes ->John // A relation which does not metion John
> // but refers to John.

Okay, you are using a reference to John in place of John a second time. But you can't reuse that reference, because then you would be storing something, the reference, twice, which would be redundant according to your personal definition. So you can use something at most twice; once as the original and once as a reference. Bummer.

Marshall Received on Fri Nov 19 2004 - 05:41:42 CET