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Full Idea
The frame problem is, precisely: How does one know that none of one's beliefs about Jupiter are germane to the current question, without having to recall and search one's beliefs about Jupiter?
Gist of Idea
Frame Problem: how to eliminate most beliefs as irrelevant, without searching them?
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (LOT 2 [2008], Ch.4.4)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'LOT 2: the Language of Thought Revisited' [OUP 2008], p.118
A Reaction
Presumably good chess-playing computers have made some progress with this problem. The only answer, as far as I can see, is that brains have a lot in common with relational databases. The mind is structured around a relevance-pattern.
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