Post #2821017
2026-04-16 13:49 UTC
Minsky responded that the brain was basically an evolutionary kludge, and so he thought the brain used a little bit of everything. He named a handful of the then-popular formalisms for knowledge representation, trotting out a list that ended with “… and Conceptual Dependency Notation.”
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 13:54
A few of us, myself included, made audible "WTF?” noises. CDN was a formalism (to be generous) invented by Roger Schank. My own impression was that it was handwavy nonsense with no explanatory or computational utility. (Side note: I once talked myself out of a job with Schank's group at ILS by inadvertently trashing work done by one of Schank's collaborators, unaware that my interviewer was one of his PhD students. In hindsight, I dodged a major, major bullet). 4/