On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I have quoted below, in his susaro.com blog, Richard Loosemore states any > system with MEMORY, ADAPTATION, IDENTITY (individuals within a type), and > NON-LINEARITY cannot be understood, nor can it be designed to have a desired > overall behavior
Well, adaptation/development necessarily implies memory. All nontrivial programs are nonlinear. I've no idea what is meant by identity in this context; if it means something important, please let me know. In the meantime the list boils down to one feature: adaptation. And lots of programs exhibiting adaptation have been written and successfully used, everything from TD-Gammon to the spam filter in the mail service I'm sending this message from. So the claim that such programs can't be designed to have a desired overall behavior is decisively refuted. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
