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Well, I didn't think much of standards anyway.
You remember my observation that standards are what can obtain the agreement of the slowest, least innovative committee member.
Here, too, the standard is apparently not quite adequate to the situation.

You wrote:
Evolution is a standard analogy, and comparing a computer to the human brain is another.

People make computers. Their (our) model for the logical actions for the computer is their logic. It worked! Computers operate like people thinking, except more rigorously than most.
Your basic A=A argument.


Your comments on AI remind me of successful computer programs that play chess. At one time, the ideal was to cut down on the number of trees examined by incorporating principles into move selection and evaluation. Didn't work very well. Now the ideal is a huge number of calculations done quickly.
Whenever there is a satisfactory AI program, it will be based on the mechanical properties of the computer and not on the model of our own thought processes, physiological or (what?) contemplative.
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Nice article.... (NT)  +-Chris-+ | 10/19/04
Evolution.  Anton Philidor | 10/19/04
No, was all about sex.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/19/04
Complex economy  Anton Philidor | 10/19/04
Nope not this time Ax  Roger Ramjet | 10/20/04
Its a Standard  Roger Ramjet | 10/20/04
Well, I didn't think much of standards anyway.  Anton Philidor | 10/20/04
Resolving the contradiction.  Anton Philidor | 10/20/04
Sure does  Roger Ramjet | 10/20/04

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