• Prolog for the pre frontal cortex (PFC) (Was: LLM and Prolog, a Marriag

    From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Wed Aug 28 20:46:28 2024
    Now I wonder whether LLMs should be an
    inch more informed by results from Neuro-
    endocrinology research. I remember Marvin
    Minsky publishing his ‘The Society of Mind’:

    Introduction to ‘The Society of Mind’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg

    But this made me think about a multi agent
    systems. Now with LLMs what about a new
    connectionist and deep learning approach.
    Plus Prolog for the pre frontal cortex (PFC).

    But who can write a blue print? Now there
    is this amazing guy called Robert M. Sapolsky
    who recently published Determined: A Science
    of Life without Free Will, who

    calls consciousness just a hicup. His turtles
    all the way down model is a tour de force
    through an unsettling conclusion: We may not
    grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture

    that creates the physics and chemistry at the
    base of human behavior, but that doesn’t mean it
    doesn’t exist. But the pre frontal cortex (PFC)
    seems to be still quite brittle and not extremly

    performant and quite energy hungry.
    So Prolog might excell?

    Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will https://www.amazon.de/dp/0525560998

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    There are more and more papers of this sort:

    Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language
    To address this, we propose a neurosymbolic
    approach that prompts LLMs to extract and encode
    all relevant information from a problem statement as
    logical code statements, and then use a logic programming
    language (Prolog) to conduct the iterative computations of
    explicit deductive reasoning.
    [2407.11373] Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language

    The future of Prolog is bright?

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Could be a wake-up call this many participants
    already in the commitee, that the whole logic
    world was asleep for many years:

    Non-Classical Logics. Theory and Applications XI,
    5-8 September 2024, Lodz (Poland)
    https://easychair.org/cfp/NCL24

    Why is Minimal Logic at the core of many things?
    Because it is the logic of Curry-Howard isomorphism
    for simple types:

    ----------------
    Γ ∪ { A } ⊢ A

    Γ ∪ { A } ⊢ B
    ----------------
    Γ ⊢ A → B

    Γ ⊢ A → B           Δ ⊢ A
    ----------------------------
    Γ ∪ Δ ⊢ B

    And funny things can happen, especially when people
    hallucinate duality or think symmetry is given, for
    example in newer inventions such as λμ-calculus,

    but then omg ~~p => p is nevertheless not provable,
    because they forgot an inference rule. LoL

    Recommended reading so far:

    Propositional Logics Related to Heyting’s and Johansson’s
    February 2008 - Krister Segerberg
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228036664

    The Logic of Church and Curry
    Jonathan P. Seldin - 2009
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-history-of-logic/vol/5/suppl/C


    Meanwhile I am going back to my tinkering with my
    Prolog system, which even provides a more primitive
    logic than minimal logic, pure Prolog is minimal

    logic without embedded implication.


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