Epstein Secrets

of human-level commonsense reasoning. After a good deal of argument, several participants converged upon a vision from The Diamond Age, a novel by Nell Stephenson. That novel envisioned an "intelligent book"--The Young Ladies Illustrated Primer--that, when given to a young girl, would immediately bond with her

Report 890030, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (1989). (16.) E.T. Mueller, Natural Language Processing with ThoughtTreasure, Signiform, New York (1998), full text of book available on line at http://www.signiform.com/tt/book/. (17.) L. G. Alexander, Longman English Gramm

of human-level commonsense reasoning. After a good deal of argument, several participants converged upon a vision from The Diamond Age, a novel by Nell Stephenson. That novel envisioned an "intelligent book"—The Young Ladies Illustrated Primer—that, when given to a young girl, would immediately bond with her a

g a story by building and maintaining a simulation that models the mental and physical states and events described in the story, as demonstrated in ThoughtTreasure. (16) The advantage of this approach is that it is easy to answer questions about the story simply by examining the contents of the simulation. Cri

of human-level commonsense reasoning. After a good deal of argument, several participants converged upon a vision from The Diamond Age, a novel by Nell Stephenson. That novel envisioned an "intelligent book"--The Young Ladies Illustrated Primer--that, when given to a young girl, would immediately bond with her

Report 890030, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (1989). (16.) E.T. Mueller, Natural Language Processing with ThoughtTreasure, Signiform, New York (1998), full text of book available on line at http://wvAv.signiform.comitt/booW. (17.) L. G. Alexander, Longman English Gramm