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Whatever that's suppose to meanNo question that less can be more sometimes!
Judea Pearl is a Turing Prize laureate. He introduced many useful logical concepts in probabilistic and statistical reasoning. A celebrated figure in the AI field, (which claimed him together with the rest of modern science! ) He's also a called philosopher - I'd say he's a thinker who studies the history and philosophy of science (which is more interesting and respectable in a scientist, imho). Oh, and he started in a solid state physics, so it feels like he's my kindred spiritPopular(ised) science? 42?
Haven't read the book but it feels like pseudo-mathematical (like The Road to Reality?). Could be wrong of course.
I think that's the nub of the issue here. I believe that influence diagrams IDs mathematize and formalize Wright's path diagrams but I find it hard to believe these fancy graphs are explanations rather than a description/model of causation. They are 'just' CS data structures??I think Pearl doesn't get metaphysical in his work. If I had a chance, though, I'd ask him whether he sees an AI as an ability to sneak-peak into the noumental realm or just a better description of the phenomenological experience - and if the second, what's the use of an AI which sees something that we don't see? how can we know if it's even real? (Brings to mind PK Dick's New Men vs Unusuals from Frolix 8).