"The Owl and the Electric Encyclopedia", Brian Cantwell Smith, Artificial Intelligence, 47, 1991, 251--288.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....to encode knowledge having the scope of a simple encyclopedia. It is a totally unsituated, and totally disembodied approach. Everything the system is to know is through hand entered units of knowledge , although there is some hope expressed that later it will be able to learn itself by reading. Smith 91] provides a commentary on this approach, and points out how the early years of the project have been devoted to finding a more primitive level of knowledge than was previously envisioned for grounding the higher levels of knowledge. It is my opinion, and also Smith s, that there is a fundamental ....

....that what is human about us is very directly related to our physical experiences. For instance [Johnson 87] argues that a large amount of our language is actually metaphorically related to our physical connections to the world. Our mental concepts are based on physically experienced exemplars. Smith 91] suggests that without physical grounding there can be no halt to the regress within a knowledge based system as it tries to reason about real world knowledge such 25 I mean this in the sense of causing self delusion, not in the sense of wrong doing with intent. 26 In fact, there is some ....

"The Owl and the Electric Encyclopedia", Brian Cantwell Smith, Artificial Intelligence, 47, 1991, 251--288.

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