An additional thought that came from discussion on a draft post of mine: should the definition include ability to do causal inference? Some miscellaneous thoughts:
Arguably that’s already part of building an internal model of the domain, although I’m uncertain whether the domain-modeling component of the definition needs to be there.
Certainly when I think about general reasoning in humans, understanding the causal properties of a system seems like an important part.
At the same time I don’t want the definition to end up as a kitchen sink. Is causal inference a fundamental sort of reasoning along with deduction/induction/abduction, or just a particular application of those?
In a sense, causal inference is a particular kind of abduction; ‘A → B’ is an explanation for particular observations.
An additional thought that came from discussion on a draft post of mine: should the definition include ability to do causal inference? Some miscellaneous thoughts:
Arguably that’s already part of building an internal model of the domain, although I’m uncertain whether the domain-modeling component of the definition needs to be there.
Certainly when I think about general reasoning in humans, understanding the causal properties of a system seems like an important part.
At the same time I don’t want the definition to end up as a kitchen sink. Is causal inference a fundamental sort of reasoning along with deduction/induction/abduction, or just a particular application of those?
In a sense, causal inference is a particular kind of abduction; ‘A → B’ is an explanation for particular observations.