Post #2821019
2026-04-16 13:56 UTC
Anyway, whether CDN was good or bad, the fact was that Minsky did NOT hold Schank in high regard (and vice-versa), so to hear Minsky saying that he thought CDN was a basic knowledge structure in the human brain was a little like hearing the Pope say that this Satan guy made some good points, actually.
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 13:58
Minsky waited a beat, looking around the room to see who was paying attention, and then grinned and added “… the way I see it, if Conceptual Dependency Notation was simple enough for Roger to invent, it's simple enough to have evolved by pure chance.” 6/
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@ftranschel@norden.social 2026-04-16 14:01
@angusm@mastodon.social If you read Goethe's Faust, that's also a theme there. He makes the devils advocate (Mephistopheles) say the following in his exposition: "Ich bin ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und doch das Gute schafft" - (Rough translation my own:) - I am part of that force which always tries the worst yet achieves the good. 1/2