I think that one of the roles of (a certain type of) friends is to extend your mind (in Engelbart's sense, i.e. roughly the same sense that a computer does). For example: argumentative interactions, in which mental labor is naturally and profitably divided between the For and Against side, or Creative and Skeptic.1Why does cultural background ( Read more... )

Wouldn't it be great if everything you wrote automatically came with a (dynamic) comprehension test? ...if the author didn't even have to (explicitly) write the test, but it got automatically generated by "AI", with the help of semantic tags, with pieces of text being linked to logical statements ( Read more... )

Kowalski, Toni (1996) - Abstract Argumentation
We outline an abstract approach to defeasible reasoning and argumentation which ( Read more... )

message I left for Danenberg at Wikisophia:

Rich Text and Argument Maps ( Read more... )

Paul Monk and Tim van Gelder - Enhancing our Grasp of Complex ArgumentsThis would already be a big step in intelligence amplification. And it's very feasible already! We just need to develop expressive and convenient formalisms, and teach ourselves to use them ( Read more... )

COMMA 06

1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA06)
Liverpool, 11th-12th September 2006

argumentation.org seems to focus on arguments about software development

ASPIC is focused on knowledge-based services for the Information Society, based on semantically rich logic formalisms called Argumentation Systems. ( Read more... )

The Logic of Real Arguments by Alec Fisher

review by Jaap Kamps: "Bridging Logical and Real Arguments"
The book starts with a beautiful argument from Galileo's Two New Sciences (refuting Aristotelian belief on the influence of gravity on bodies of different weight). This is what makes this book far beyond the ordinary: it contains a wealth of ( Read more... )