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[Simon Brooke](mailto:simon@journeyman.cc) [Simon Brooke](mailto:simon@journeyman.cc)
> Hey, what IS truth, man? [Beeblebrox, quoted in [Adams, 1978]] > "Hey, what IS truth, man?" Beeblebrox, Z, quoted in [Adams, 1978]
*This title is, of course, a respectful nod to Feyerabend's Against Method* *This title is, of course, a respectful nod to Feyerabend's Against Method*

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Artificial Intellegence – has ab initio been based on the assumption Artificial Intellegence – has ab initio been based on the assumption
that the purpose of reasoning was to preserve truth. It is because this 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, assumption is false that the project has thus far failed to bear fruit,
that Allan Turing's eponymous test has yet to be passed. that [Allan Turing's eponymous test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test) has yet to be passed.
![Clockwork minds](../img/clockwork.png)
Of course it is possible to build machines which, within the constraints Of course it is possible to build machines which, within the constraints
of finite store, can accurately compute theora of first order predicate of finite store, can accurately compute theora of first order predicate
calculus ad nauseam but such machines do not display behaviour which is calculus ad nauseam but such machines do not display behaviour which is
convincingly intelligent. They are cold and mechanical; we do not convincingly intelligent. They are cold and mechanical; we do not
recognise ourselves in them. Like the Girl in the Fireplace's beautiful recognise ourselves in them. Like the [Girl in the Fireplace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Fireplace)'s beautiful
clocks, they are precisely inhuman. clocks, they are precisely inhuman.
As Turing's test itself shows, intelligence is a hegemonic term, a term As Turing's test itself shows, intelligence is a hegemonic term, a term

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<p><a href="mailto:simon@journeyman.cc">Simon Brooke</a></p> <p><a href="mailto:simon@journeyman.cc">Simon Brooke</a></p>
<blockquote> <blockquote>
<p>Hey, what IS truth, man? [Beeblebrox, quoted in [Adams, 1978]]</p> <p>“Hey, what IS truth, man?” Beeblebrox, Z, quoted in [Adams, 1978]</p>
</blockquote> </blockquote>
<p><em>This title is, of course, a respectful nod to Feyerabend’s Against Method</em></p> <p><em>This title is, of course, a respectful nod to Feyerabend’s Against Method</em></p>
<h2><a href="#introduction" name="introduction"></a>Introduction</h2> <h2><a href="#introduction" name="introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>

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<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>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>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><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>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>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> <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>

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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="sidebar secondary"><h3><a href="#top"><span class="inner">Public Vars</span></a></h3><ul><li class="depth-1"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html#var-Advocate"><div class="inner"><span>Advocate</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html#var-decide"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>decide</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html#var-id"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>id</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html#var-move"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>move</span></div></a></li></ul></div><div class="namespace-docs" id="content"><h1 class="anchor" id="top">wildwood.advocate</h1><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>An agent capable of playing the explanation game.</p> <html><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>wildwood.advocate documentation</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" 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class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>id</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2 branch"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html#var-move"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>move</span></div></a></li><li class="depth-2"><a href="wildwood.advocate.html#var-record"><div class="inner"><span class="tree"><span class="top"></span><span class="bottom"></span></span><span>record</span></div></a></li></ul></div><div class="namespace-docs" id="content"><h1 class="anchor" id="top">wildwood.advocate</h1><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>An agent capable of playing the explanation game.</p>
<p>An advocate must have its own knowledge accessor. Different advocates within a game may be accessing different knowledge bases, or different subsets of the same knowledge base with different - potentially competing - knowledge. It also needs to know the schema in which knowledge will be presented.</p> <p>An advocate must have its own knowledge accessor. Different advocates within a game may be accessing different knowledge bases, or different subsets of the same knowledge base with different - potentially competing - knowledge. It also needs to know the schema in which knowledge will be presented.</p>
<p>Since the mechanism by which the application will communicate with the library must include a way for users to interact with the game, and since the role of the user in the came is just as a participant, advocate must be defined as a protocol, in order that it may be extended by code within the application which is passed in to the game when the game is started. Indeed, multiple agents - the user(s) and potentially non-player characters - may be passed in.</p> <p>Since the mechanism by which the application will communicate with the library must include a way for users to interact with the game, and since the role of the user in the came is just as a participant, advocate must be defined as a protocol, in order that it may be extended by code within the application which is passed in to the game when the game is started. Indeed, multiple agents - the user(s) and potentially non-player characters - may be passed in.</p>
<p>In this conception, nothing within a default advocate has to be able to produce or consume natural language. It is sufficient for the API exposed by wildwood.advocate to receive and return wildwood.schema objects.</p> <p>In this conception, nothing within a default advocate has to be able to produce or consume natural language. It is sufficient for the API exposed by wildwood.advocate to receive and return wildwood.schema objects.</p>
<p>Obviously to show a user interface anything similar to Arden’s, or for what I intend for The Great Game, the advocates passed must ‘at their other end’ - that is, on the application side rather than the library side - be able to consume and emit natural language, but that functionality does not need to be part of the wildwood library, and certainly does not need to be part of the default advocate as specified here.</p></div></div><div class="public anchor" id="var-Advocate"><h3>Advocate</h3><h4 class="type">protocol</h4><div class="usage"></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"></div></div><div class="members"><h4>members</h4><div class="inner"><div class="public anchor" id="var-decide"><h3>decide</h3><div class="usage"><code>(decide self proposition argument)</code></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>Return <code>true</code>, <code>false</code> or <code>nil</code> as the value of this <code>proposition</code>, given this <code>argument</code>. The value of <code>proposition</code> should be a proposition as defined by <code>wildwood.schema/proposition?</code>; the value of <code>argument</code> should satisfy <code>wildwood.schema/argument?</code>.</p></div></div></div><div class="public anchor" id="var-id"><h3>id</h3><div class="usage"><code>(id self)</code></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>Return a value which uniquely identifies this agent.</p></div></div></div><div class="public anchor" id="var-move"><h3>move</h3><div class="usage"><code>(move self proposition argument)</code></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>Return a new argument structure representing the result of applying my <code>decide</code> method to this <code>proposition</code> and <code>argument</code>, specifying in some way not yet determined what sort of move I have made.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="src-link"><a href="https://github.com/simon-brooke/the-great-game/blob/master/src/wildwood/advocate.clj#L32">view source</a></div></div></div></body></html> <p>Obviously to show a user interface anything similar to Arden’s, or for what I intend for The Great Game, the advocates passed must ‘at their other end’ - that is, on the application side rather than the library side - be able to consume and emit natural language, but that functionality does not need to be part of the wildwood library, and certainly does not need to be part of the default advocate as specified here.</p></div></div><div class="public anchor" id="var-Advocate"><h3>Advocate</h3><h4 class="type">protocol</h4><div class="usage"></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"></div></div><div class="members"><h4>members</h4><div class="inner"><div class="public anchor" id="var-decide"><h3>decide</h3><div class="usage"><code>(decide self proposition argument)</code></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>Return <code>true</code>, <code>false</code> or <code>nil</code> as the value of this <code>proposition</code>, given this <code>argument</code>. The value of <code>proposition</code> should be a proposition as defined by <code>wildwood.schema/proposition?</code>; the value of <code>argument</code> should satisfy <code>wildwood.schema/argument?</code>.</p></div></div></div><div class="public anchor" id="var-id"><h3>id</h3><div class="usage"><code>(id self)</code></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>Return a value which uniquely identifies this agent.</p></div></div></div><div class="public anchor" id="var-move"><h3>move</h3><div class="usage"><code>(move self proposition argument)</code></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>Return a new argument structure representing the result of applying my <code>decide</code> method to this <code>proposition</code> and <code>argument</code>, specifying in some way not yet determined what sort of move I have made.</p></div></div></div><div class="public anchor" id="var-record"><h3>record</h3><div class="usage"><code>(record self proposition value)</code></div><div class="doc"><div class="markdown"><p>Pass a <code>proposition</code> with a determined <code>value</code> to me, in order that advocates can, if desired, record the determined value in their knowledge base. The API does not require that the advocate records the decision, only that it has the opportunity to do so. Return the value.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="src-link"><a href="https://github.com/simon-brooke/the-great-game/blob/master/src/wildwood/advocate.clj#L32">view source</a></div></div></div></body></html>

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Iterate the game until all agents PASS; then finally offer each agent’s <code>record</code> method the <code>proposition</code> together with the decided truth value (<code>true</code> or <code>false</code>), before returning that value.</p>
<p>The <code>proposition</code> is a proposition as defined in the <code>wildwood.schema</code>; that is to say, the predicate <code>wildwood.schema/predicate?</code> returns true of it. If the proposition isn’t a predicate, throw an exception.</p> <p>The <code>proposition</code> is a proposition as defined in the <code>wildwood.schema</code>; that is to say, the predicate <code>wildwood.schema/predicate?</code> returns true of it. If the proposition isn’t a predicate, throw an exception.</p>
<p>Each of <code>agents</code> should be an object implementing the <code>wildwood.advocate/Advocate</code> protocol. If an agent isn’t an Advocate, throw an exception.</p> <p>Each of <code>agents</code> should be an object implementing the <code>wildwood.advocate/Advocate</code> protocol. If an agent isn’t an Advocate, throw an exception.</p>
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"Pass a `proposition` with a determined `value` to me, in order that
advocates can, if desired, record the determined value in their
knowledge base. The API does not require that the advocate records
the decision, only that it has the opportunity to do so. Return the
value.")
(id [self] "Return a value which uniquely identifies this agent.") (id [self] "Return a value which uniquely identifies this agent.")
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these advocate `agents`. Iterate the game until all agents PASS; then finally these advocate `agents`. Iterate the game until all agents PASS; then finally
offer each agent's `assert` method the `proposition` together with the offer each agent's `record` method the `proposition` together with the
decided truth value (`true` or `false`), before returning that value. decided truth value (`true` or `false`), before returning that value.
The `proposition` is a proposition as defined in the `wildwood.schema`; The `proposition` is a proposition as defined in the `wildwood.schema`;