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<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>Manifesto</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/highlight.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="js/highlight.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/page_effects.js"></script><script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script></head><body><div id="header"><h2>Generated by <a href="https://github.com/weavejester/codox">Codox</a></h2><h1><a href="index.html"><span class="project-title"><span class="project-name">Wildwood</span> <span class="project-version">0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</span></span></a></h1></div><div class="sidebar primary"><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Project</span></h3><ul class="index-link"><li class="depth-1 "><a href="index.html"><div class="inner">Index</div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Topics</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1 "><a href="AgainstTruth.html"><div class="inner"><span>Against Truth</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Analysis.html"><div class="inner"><span>Analysis</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Arboretum.html"><div class="inner"><span>Arboretum</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Arden.html"><div class="inner"><span>Arden</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Bialowieza.html"><div class="inner"><span>Bialowieza</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Errata.html"><div class="inner"><span>Errata</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Experience.html"><div class="inner"><span>Experience</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="History.html"><div class="inner"><span>History</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="Implementing.html"><div class="inner"><span>Implementing</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="KnacqTools.html"><div class="inner"><span>KnacqTools</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 current"><a href="Manifesto.html"><div class="inner"><span>Manifesto</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="OnHylasAndPhilonus.html"><div class="inner"><span>On the First Dialogue of Hylas and Philonous</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="PredicateSubtext.html"><div class="inner"><span>On the subtext of a predicate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="TheProblem.html"><div class="inner"><span>The Problem</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-1 "><a href="intro.html"><div class="inner"><span>Introduction to Wildwood</span></div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Namespaces</span></h3><ul><li class="depth-1"><div class="no-link"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>wildwood</span></div></div></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>advocate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.bialowieza.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>bialowieza</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.knowledge-accessor.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>knowledge-accessor</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2"><a href="wildwood.schema.html"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>schema</span></div></a></li></ul></div><div class="document" id="content"><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><h1><a href="#manifesto" name="manifesto"></a>Manifesto</h1>
<p>Machine inference – automated reasoning, the core of what gets called Artificial Intellegence – has ab initio been based on the assumption that the purpose of reasoning was to preserve truth. It is because this assumption is false that the project has thus far failed to bear fruit, that Allan Turing’s eponymous test has yet to be passed.</p>
<p>Of course it is possible to build machines which, within the constraints of finite store, can accurately compute theora of first order predicate calculus ad nauseam but such machines do not display behaviour which is convincingly intelligent. They are cold and mechanical; we do not recognise ourselves in them. Like the Girl in the Fireplace’s beautiful clocks, they are precisely inhuman.</p>
<p>Machine inference – automated reasoning, the core of what gets called Artificial Intellegence – has ab initio been based on the assumption that the purpose of reasoning was to preserve truth. It is because this assumption is false that the project has thus far failed to bear fruit, that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test">Allan Turing’s eponymous test</a> has yet to be passed.</p>
<p><img src="../img/clockwork.png" alt="Clockwork minds" /></p>
<p>Of course it is possible to build machines which, within the constraints of finite store, can accurately compute theora of first order predicate calculus ad nauseam but such machines do not display behaviour which is convincingly intelligent. They are cold and mechanical; we do not recognise ourselves in them. Like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Fireplace">Girl in the Fireplace</a>’s beautiful clocks, they are precisely inhuman.</p>
<p>As Turing’s test itself shows, intelligence is a hegemonic term, a term laden with implicit propaganda. A machine is ‘intelligent’ if it can persuade a person that it is a person. By ‘intelligent’ we don’t mean ‘capable of perfect reasoning’. We mean ‘like us’; and in meaning ‘like us’ we are smuggling under the covers, as semantic baggage, the claim that we ourselves are intelligent.</p>
<p>I might argue that perfect reasoning has little utility in a messy world, that to cope with the messiness of a messy world one needs messy reasoning. I shall not do so: the core of my argument is not that there is principle and value in the mode of reasoning that I propose, but precisely that it is – ruthlessly – unprincipled.</p>
<p>In this thesis I shall argue that the purpose of real world argument is not to preserve truth but to achieve hegemony: not to enlighten but to persuade, not to inform but to convince. This thesis succeeds not if in some arid, clockwork, mechanical sense I am right, but if, having read it, you believe that I am.</p>