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Full Idea
The 'Frame Problem' in artificial intelligence is how to write a program which not only embodies people's general knowledge, but specifies how that knowledge is to be applied appropriately, when circumstances can't be specified in advance.
Gist of Idea
The 'Frame Problem' is how to program the appropriate application of general knowledge
Source
E.J. Lowe (Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind [2000], Ch. 8)
Book Ref
Lowe,E.J.: 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind' [CUP 2000], p.220
A Reaction
As Lowe observes, this is a problem, but not necessarily an impossibility. There should be a way to symbolically map the concepts of knowledge onto the concepts of perception, just as we must do.
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