Common Sense?

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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 01:04:56 -0500 "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.elilabs.com>
writes:
>>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Welch <tlwitness@juno.com> writes:
>
>    >> Common sense....
>
>    Jerry> The old "common sense" argument?  Kinda circular, actually:
>    Jerry> "My way of thinking is right because I am using common
>    Jerry> sense.  If you merely used common sense you would see my
>    Jerry> way of thinking"
>
>I have a definition of common sense that I developed in response to
>what artificial intelligence researchers call "the common sense
>problem".  This term is based on John McCarthy's seminal 1957 paper
>"Programs with Common Sense", in which he tried to outline how such a
>program could be designed.  The AI community, over 40 years later, is
>still not able to develop a single program with any kind of common
>sense that the average human would recognize.
>
>Common sense:  What I know, that you don't know, that I think you 
>               ought to know.

Or, (thinking on it more)

Common Sense: The belief that on a given subject, using normal
methodological deduction, a similar and reasonable conclusion would be
reached by the average person of sound mind.

Jerry Welch

www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2810/

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