[FRIAM] Shorthands for Brain-stuff

[Russ Abbott]

Can't we get fine approximations via apt categorizations? I can witness how
others, that are similar to this
individual, behaved in the past.

Of course we can and do create categories. They will often be useful, but
they will almost certainly produce wrong answers in significant numbers of
situations. When applied to people such categories often
become stereotypes, which can do great damage to both individuals and
society.

-- Russ Abbott
Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles


On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 2:02 PM jon zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> "It can’t be necessary to adopt what amounts to a religion in order to
> function with one another."
>
> Maybe not a religion, but perhaps to recognize/engage one's beliefs
> relative
> to another's beliefs?
>
> "In many cases, one would have to know the complete history of a
> person--from his childhood family and environment to whether someone gave
> him the finger for no apparent reason earlier in the day--to know how he is
> going react to any particular triggering event."
>
> What about classes? Can't we get fine approximations via apt
> categorizations? I can witness how others, that are similar to this
> individual, behaved in the past.
>
> "So, I think it's Fine and Good to *entertain* the idea of fully closed
> logical abstraction floors and ceilings. But I think it's shaky metaphysics
> to rely on them."
>
> Agreed. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about openness on the left hand
> and closedness on the right. There is no adapting to an ever-changing world
> when we are closed, but at least we can write global theorems. When we are
> open, we are open to catastrophe, and all progress to rectify discrepancies
> between model and experience is inherently local.
>
>
>
>
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