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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > ... > > If the thing being modeled is human, we don't > model a machine. His reply cuts both ways. It is unfortunate that the use of words like "meaning", "semantic" and "infer" encourage people to think that either predicate logic or the Web is about teaching computers to think like people. The semantic web technologies will allow computers to draw very basic conclusions based on carefully constructed inputs, just as Excel can draw very charts based on carefully chosen numeric inputs. It is, in my opinion, off-topic to rejoin: "But humans don't do it that way." Humans don't add numbers in the way computers do either. So what? As long as they add the numbers or make the inference they can help us to solve problems. If the semantic web is roughly as intelligent as a relational database it will have succeeded...and it seems to have already exceeded that point. -- Paul Prescod
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