by Jonathan Vorce
As humans we hear all sorts of statements. We remember ideas expressed in the statements, not necessarily the exact wording of the statement. Take the following statements for instance:
- I swam for two hours.
- My swim lasted for two hours.
- It took me two hours to do my swim.
The meaning behind these three statements is fundamentally the same. And we as humans do a great job at distilling the important concepts from such statements and discarding the exact wording. Recall your last phone conversation and you’ll see that if you remember anything at all, it is the concepts communicated and certainly not a precise transcript of the conversation.
Well, the Neuric Brain works in the same way. It looks at the meaning behind the statements it receives and get to the concepts behind the words. In that way it knows that statements like “John killed the bear” and “John caused the bear to die” are conceptually very similar.
And of course this also plays out in the Neuric Brain’s ability to answer questions. Designed to think in terms of concepts and their interrelation, the Neuric Brain understands that you’re asking basically the same thing if you were to throw out one of these questions:
- “Why did the bear die?
- “What caused the bear to die?”
- “What killed the bear?”
- “What was the reason the bear died?”
This concept-centric approach is not just limited to the Brain’s comprehension of statements and questions given to it. The Neuric Brain uses its conceptual intelligence to express its thoughts in the best way. It internally rephrases concepts to communicate effectively as possible with the user.
In addition, the Neuric Brain does not use string matching to actually identify and understand concepts at play in statements and questions. Input and querying of the brain is therefore not limited to hyper-specific conditions. It is instead possible to interact with the Neuric Brain in much the same way you would with another person, freely communicating ideas as they come to you, and in plain English.