Notes

Explanation Types According to Tania Lombrozo in Explanation and Abductive Inference, there are three main types of explanation: mechanistic, functional / teleological, and formal. Lombrozo uses tires to demonstrate the three explanatory appeals. I will adapt this demonstration, but with a wooden wheel made from a solid panel. Consider the following situation: Alice has a large crate of apples in Atlanta, and wants to deliver this crate to Bob in Barnesville....

Symbolic methods Personally, I think GOFAI gets an undue amount of neglect and hate these days. Video games use them, and they can be fairly effective at simulating reasonable intelligent behavior. Not to say there isn’t any use with recent techniques, but symbolic systems are just more easily deciphered. Well, at least when they don’t explode in complexity, like FSMs do. Additionally, humans do use symbols, is it so wrong to think that we can use neural and symbolic methods together?...