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From: nicholso@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (Lea Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Is Common Sense Explicit or Implicit?
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In article <hubey.778305168@pegasus.montclair.edu>, hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) writes...
>nicholso@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (Lea Nicholson) writes:
> 
>>implicit knowledge:  knowledge that is not hard coded, i.e. it is infered
>>from hard coded knowledge in some manner.
> 
>>explicit knowledge:  hard coded knowledge that can be directly used.
> 
>Hard-coded where? In the brain or in some machine? Do you take the
>two to be equivalent?
> 
>What kinds of knowledge can be hard-coded in the human/animal brain?
>Maybe an inference engine of some sorts may be hard-coded. Is this
>considered knowledge?
> 
> 
>--
>						-- Mark---
>.....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
>where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925

I was referring to knowledge hard coded in a general reasoning system.  For
humans the equivalent may be a novice who makes decisions based on learned
rules while implicit knowledge may be equivalent to an expert who makes
decisions based on intuition and experience.

Another exmple would be implicit knowledge ~ subconscious thought and
explicit knowledge ~ conscious decisions.  I don't know how this would
relate to a general reasoning system though.

-Lea Nicholson

