Detached Lever Fallacy

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See also: exformation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exformation

Amen. Filed under: inherent limitations of Semantic Web data mining techniques.

Actually probabilistic approach to it is not that bad: google translate works fine without knowing the rules, just words and their usage statistics is enough to have a rough translation.

The software that implements that probabilistic approach was intentionally written by programmers, and may well be very complex.

The analogy would be that your individual neurons don't really understand this text, but you do. The organization of those neurons is where most of the complexity lies.

So, unless you have lots of neurons, lots of time, and lots of room to terminate mistakes, chances are you can't build a brain that understands this text without first knowing how to connect all those neurons.

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