KROHNFELDT@UTAH-20.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (09/26/83)
From: Jed Krohnfeldt <KROHNFELDT@UTAH-20.ARPA>
Some thoughts about Stan Shebs' questions:
I think that your continuum of 1st order learning, 2nd order learning,
etc. can really be collapsed to just two levels - the basic learning
level, and what has been popularly called the "meta level". Learning
about learning about learning, is really no different than learning
about learning, is it? It is simply a capability to introspect (and
possibly intervene) into basic learning processes.
This also proposes an answer to your second question - why don't
humans go catatonic when presented with circular definitions - the
answer may be that we do have heuristics, or meta-level knowledge,
that prevents us from endlessly looping on circular concepts.
Jed Krohnfeldt
utah-cs!jed
krohnfeldt@utah-20