From association to meaning via correspondence connections: requirements and challenges for creating knowledge from behaviour

The problem of transforming physical behaviour into symbolic knowledge is a kind of \arti cial intelligence complete" problem in the sense that almost all AI research ever done seems to be somewhere relevant to the most general conception of the problem. The hypothesis sketched here claims that if any general computational framework for this problem is to emerge, it will necessarily involve the capture and deployment of domain knowledge at the information boundaries we will call correspondence connections, after Brian Smith's idea called the \correspondence continuum." In this brief position paper, we scramble through a few central ideas that provide a basis for describing the idea of correspondence connections, and try to explain the requirements and challenges for the development and exploitation of such a framework. [D R A F T { comments welcome] 1