[FRIAM] More on levels of sequence organization

[glen∈ℂ]

I posit that all strict hierarchies *must* be violated for any[†] work to be done[‡]. In other words, strict hierarchies are fictions. They don't exist except in our imagination. So, the difference the violation makes is: Of course it violates a strict hierarchy; otherwise it wouldn't have worked. 8^)

[†] Well, any *significant* work to be done. The idea that an organism is more complex than a machine seems to be simply the qualifier that the work it does is somehow meaningful ... not merely rote.

[‡] I further posit that this is the separation between specific and general intelligence. The reason humans are capable of executing tasks that are difficult to automate is because "we are large, we contain multitudes" (bastardizing Whitman).

On 5/4/19 5:51 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> If you're moving up from the phoneme to the word to the phrase level and
> some result in the last disambiguates between two phonemes, what difference
> does it make that you've violated some strict hierarchy?