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From: llunch@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (Jason Baker)
Subject: Re: Is Common Sense Explicit or Implicit?
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In article <CvpFB3.Iot@festival.ed.ac.uk>,
Chris Malcolm <cam@castle.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <CvKC9v.Lr2@aisb.ed.ac.uk> alasdt@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Alasdair Turner) writes:
>>In article <CvFMAI.3qG@festival.ed.ac.uk>, cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>>> In article <1994Aug22.042736.25458@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>
>>> >What I'd like to see is an attempt to discuss
and so on.
>
>There are inter-relationships between them, and I suspect that it is
>impossible to build a reasoning system which does not involve all
>three, but the three categories are not destroyed by this interaction.
>I constructed this system in order to be able to discuss the
>experimental reasoning systems I build, since the "explicit/implicit"
>distinction, although widely used, is a morass. I find that in most
>cases the distinctions are clear and obvious, with sometimes one or
>two awkward cases which require a little debate.
>
>If you find the categories evaporating and merging as you try to use
>them, this is usually a sign that you are confusing the viewpoints of
>two different knowers. Don't forget that complex knowers (such as
>ourselves) include sub-knowers.
>
	Ok, but what happens when someone acutally sees the Mayan
codices and comes into direct contact with the reactive mind (the
alien language machine you referred to earlier).  Surely in that case,
all catagories do evaporate.

	Jason
 
