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Subject: Re: Grand Challenges
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On "Human Knowledge"...

	I am one of many people who makes a living by generation solutions to
complex problems or tasks in a specific field by understanding the 
relationships between my field and many 'unrelated' fields of study.  As the 
complexety of today's world increases, The realm of "Human Knowledge" cannot
remain 'monolithic', to solve many problems, _especialy_ in AI, one must 
acquire the feel of the dynamic 'flow' of human experence and sense the 
conectives within.  Few people are adept at this, and the ones who are, ether
become _the_ leading edge of their field, or are called opon to consult for
others by acting as that mythical construct that will 'understand' human 
experence on demand.

	In my field, both acedemic and profesinal, I strive to make systems 
that will acquire knowledge and make ,_AT BEST_, moderately simple corrila-
tions in data that may point to solutions to a specified task.  It is still
the realm of the Human Investigator to take these suggestions and make a compl-
ete analysis of them by drawing on his/her(?) own heurestic capability to arive
at a solution.  To this date, the most advanced construct I have seen, only
does a type of informational investigative 'leg work', and rarly can it corr-
alate facts that seem to be unrelated, but may actualy be ontological. (But,
I am working on it ;-} )  It is true that the computer model of what we do
would be more effective for a research investigator, but the point to which
we can program 'intuituitive knoledge' beyond simple relationships in pattern
recognition is far off.  The human in this equasionis still an unknown factor
to itself (can YOU tell me how you think, and if you can, there are MANY
cognitive sci. people [psycologists, AI researchers, etc] who want to talk to
you...), and until we can solve the grand chalenge of knowing ourselves, our
creations are little more than idiot savants (and bloody expencive ones at
that!)

-kill me, not my clients (Translated from the legalese...)
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