An Introduction to Intelligence (Part 3).

An Introduction to Intelligence (Part 3).
By Salim Shahbudeen Meghani

So, why use a worksheet for creating data relationships instead of a DBMS? You may ask. Well worksheets are mathematical, and mathematics is a language, that can be used to express most things that other languages do. It is only a question of relating that language properly, to create an 'understanding of something.'

For example, when we say a 'banana and two rows of three apples,' it's easy to express that as 1+2*3. Using a DB would be very cumbersome and tiresome to do something as simple as that. Remember we are interested in Objects and their manipulation by machines.

In a worksheet suppose we had the above fruits and wanted to cut them into two, i.e. (1+2*3)/2?
How would we try (at least) to create an mathematical understanding of this? Well we would label our cells with names, say ban, row, app, and then in another cell have the expression, ban+row*app. We would name this cell fruit. Within the contents of cells themselves, we would have the numbers, 1,2,3. In a final cell we would have the expression fruit/2.
Now, the mathematics evaluates, to (ban+row*app)/2, which comes to (1+2*3)/2.
If we now relate the numbers, with the expression (ban+row*app)/2, we can create (a sort of) understanding that there is one banana, two rows of three apples being divided into two. Obviously a robot mightn't use the names we use, but it would be able to 'see the fruit' and create associations and meanings in the ways described above.