A lot of what we learn and know as human beings is not the result of deliberate heuristic strategy, but simply what we call "intuition" ... which I usually inte

A lot of what we learn and know as human beings is not the result of deliberate heuristic strategy, but simply what we call "intuition" ... which I usually interpret as unconscious pattern-seeking based in experience -- spread out over a considerable amount of time so that the result "cooks out" like a slow stew. If I understand this journalist's description of what the AI folk are talking about, 'Church' is the old weighting strategy again. Since we don't really understand how our 'tacit knowledge' develops (or -doesn't-), this model may result in something similar. It's ground-breaking IFF the computer can really resolve 'reality' without continual hand-holding. To my knowledge this hasn't been achieved yet (how many years are we into the CYC project now?), but certainly it makes sense to use some rules that 'seed' growth. It may require our best intuition to create that seed.