I couldn’t disagree with your argument more strenuously.
Is DNA/RNA digital or can it be represented using a digital notation? I have developed code (including Assembler) and I have used next to no Math in 37 years of full time work programming and developing software. I believe that Computer Science is a Science on it’s own, where some parts can be described by some Mathematics. If you want to create new Mathematical concepts (and some people have) to describe CS, no problem, but that doesn’t mean that CS is Mathematics. By the way, I have a minor in Mathematics and a major in Computer Science in my degree so I am not just saying this to aggravate anyone. CS to me starts with how a computer works. That means defined steps where there are branches and loops that can be interpreted by a physical computer. How long something takes to compute or how efficient the algorithm is very important to CS but has nothing to do with Mathematics. This point is just one of the very many examples I could give to back up my claim that CS is not a branch of Mathematics. Math is used extensively in Chemistry so is Chemistry a branch of Mathematics? Why equate numbers to Math? Some numbers are used in Math but numbers are only one component of Math. My child could count his toes, so he was using Math? David Clark From: Logan Streondj [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December-30-12 2:20 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Why Logic & Maths Have Sweet FA to do with Real world reasoning It's pretty obvious to anyone that done any assembly programming, that without math or at least numbers nothing would actually work. Everything is represented by numbers, text, images, sounds etc. DNA/RNA is of course also digital, has 4 letters (nucleotides), and 3 letter words (codons), representing the 22 amino acids, from which all else is assembled. Anyways, both Mike and Jim don't actually have AGI projects. There are some people that do, or at least have related-projects. So really Mike and Jim are students of AGI if anything. Pattern recognition is certainly a big component of biological intelligence, though of course it is not the only, as instinct and hard-wiring is a significant component, especially in lower brains. The DNA/RNA requires the organelles to interpret them, or match them to proper amino acids and assemble them together. Similarly the numbers no matter how patterned are only useful with the hard wired interpretation of them into text, images, sound etc. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
