Simplicity and Ontologies

Added 27 Jul 2014] Many researchers work on systems that learn. Different sorts of things can be learnt, including abilities of many kinds, and applications of those abilities. Learnable abilities include (in no significant order): abilities to label, abilities to describe, abilities to predict, abilities to manipulate directly or to control indirectly, abilities to perform actions of varying complexity and difficulty, abilities to classify, abilities to explain, abilities to evaluate, abilities to appreciate, abilities to plan, abilities to carry out plans, including modifying or extending them during execution, abilities to design things, abilities to make things to satisfy a need, abilities to prove things, make inferences, calculate or reason, abilities to discover things, abilities to communicate (using language or other media), abilities to understand communications, abilities to teach or assist others, abilities to collaborate as leader or subordinate or equal, abilities to empathise, abilities to resolve conflicts, within oneself or between individuals, and many more related abilities.