[WikiEN-l] SmartWikiSearch, a similarity search engine for Wikipedia

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/23/2009 4:53:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca writes:


> The search for "bees" and "flowers" suggests "pollination". I do not see 
> anything mindless about that. That is a human association>>

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You're not understanding me.  An article discussing bees and mentioning 
that they pollinate flowers IS a human association.  I didn't say it wasn't.  
However the meta-network of *all* such associations to the nth degree of 
relatedness is not something a human can encompass in one bite.  That's one 
thing.

What I was stating is that this meta-network itself, is created by a 
computer algorithm, which ITSELF has no mind.  It has no idea what the terms mean, 
or refer to, or imply.  It only knows that they are associated in some way. 
 It creates this meta-network and ranks the associations in a mindless way, 
i.e. without comprehension.  That's what I meant.

W.J.