> -----Original Message----- > > I once performed an experiment, where I took an older and very experienced > winning high school football coach (from Sealth H.S. in Seattle) and > presented him with various football situations, asked him what he thought > the probabilities were, and asked him what HE would do in them. I then > solved the simple zero-sum game theory problems, and discovered that his > solutions were VERY close to perfect. He had never even heard of game > theory, yet he was able to ably solve game theory problems. Note that game > theory (excepting for some trivial cases) is NOT "logical" - there is no way to > "reason it out". I suspect that much of our GI comes from similar "emergent > math", where our basic construction leads us to becoming able to do such > things, without any #2 as many AGIers would seek to do. >
I'm sure if you researched this more you would uncover numerous examples. There are two sides to this coin: the world works a certain way, and the mind leverages mathematical models to increase computational efficiency to provide advantage. Some of the modeling is quite evolved and some not. As well, some models are dynamically constructible. A great advantage that we have in building AGI is that we have centuries of mathematics developed by numerous biological GI's, us, to start off with. So the computational advantage is enormous. Much of that one mind in a lifetime could not achieve, yet a few contemporary mathematical softwares inherently contain much of it. John ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
