Very briefly, my focus a while back in attacking programs was not on
the sign/ semiotic - and more particularly, symbolic - form of
programs, although that is v. important too.
My focus was on the *structure* of programs - that's what they are:
structured and usually sequenced sets of instructions.No matter how
sophisticated their structure, and/or their capacity to adapt their
structure, they are still structured.
I'm unclear what you mean by structure.
Interpretaton 1:
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Every program in a modern computer language is a structured and
sequenced set of instructions. It isn't possible to write an unsequenced
set of instructions, because the language itself imposes that structure.
If structured programs cannot be intelligent, then if I understand you
correctly, it follows that what you are saying is that it is
*impossible* to write intelligent systems in modern computer programming
languages. Given that modern computer languages are Turing complete
(modulo space and time limitations), your claims would therefore be
equivalent to saying that intelligence is not computable.
Interpretation 2:
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May be you mean something a little stronger by structure? That the way
that human beings engineer software is very structured, and software
that has been engineered by humans with that kind of structure cannot
possibly solve unstructured problems.
Do you think, then, that it is possible for a human to write a
structured program that generates unstructured programs that have
general intelligence?
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-Ben
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