Epstein Secrets

of abstraction. The prominence of visual and other sensory metaphors in abstract cognition is well known lArn69, Gar00]; and according to Lakoff and Nunez 1LN001 even pure mathematics is grounded in physical perception and action in very concrete ways. We begin by discussing the perception and action

ical structure and less of a tie to the spatiotemporal structure of physical reality. The latter view is the one we are primarily taking within the CogPrime AGI approach, viewing perceptual, motoric and goal hierarchies as "lower level" subsystems connected to a "higher level" system based on the CogPrime A

ees in some precivilized cultures. But in other cases this kind of analogy leads to robust sorts of reasoning - for instance, in reading Lakoff and Nunez's ILN00] intriguing explorations of the cognitive foundations of mathematics, it is pretty easy to see that most of the metaphors on which they hypo

e next decades as computers get more and more powerful and our understanding of neuroscience and cognitive science gets more and more complete. The CogPrime AGI design presented here is based on this working hypothesis. Many of the ideas in the book are actually independent of the "mind can be implemented d

sees in some precivilized cultures. But in other cases this kind of analogy leads to robust sorts of reasoning - for instance, in reading Lakoff and Nunez’s [LN00] intriguing explorations of the cognitive foundations of mathematics, it is pretty easy to see that most of the metaphors on which they hypot

the next decades as computers get more and more powerful and our understanding of neuroscience and cognitive science gets more and more complete. The CogPrime AGI design presented here is based on this working hypothesis. Many of the ideas in the book are actually independent of the “mind can be implemented di