In some AI applications, context-free grammar is used. This is a collection
of phrase structure rules that does not include a statement of the context
in which they are applied. Each such rule names a constituent type and
specifies a possible expansion. Because the expansion is unconditional -
that is, the environment of the constituent to be expanded is irrelevant -
the above rules are context free rules. (Based on Collins Dictionary of AI)
Marvin Minsky has come up with some AI friendly theories. For example, his
ideas regarding consciousness equate some levels of mental processes with
highly specialized agents. These agents operate in a manner which could be
compared to digital applications like computer programs.. (e.g. the ideas
that the brain could, after death, live in digitized form.)
If
a) in computational terms (at the very least) there is relevance for
context-free elements,
and
b) there are similarities between some functions of the brain, or even
consciousness itself, and computer programs -
What is the possibility that we use some context-free elements at some
occasions or levels of perception and cognition?
Thanks in advance
aharon
BTW -
Minsky on the web is at: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/minsky/minsky.html
You might want to try http://mictlan.sfsu.edu/~chrisk/CFGs/CFGs.html
for Context-Free Grammar
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