On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Evidence is an indication that depends on the >> referred event: evidence is there when referred event is there, but >> evidence is not there when refereed event is absent. > > And if the referred thing (entities acquiring intelligence from static > corpus in the absence of environment) existed we would expect to see > it happening, if (as I claim) it does not exist then we would expect > to see all intelligence-acquiring entities needing interaction with an > environment; we observe the latter, which by the above criterion is > evidence for my theory. >
There are only evolution-built animals, which is a very limited repertoir of intelligences. You are saying that if no apple tastes like a banana, therefore no fruit tastes like a banana, even banana. Whether a design is possible or not, you expect to see the same result, if it was never attempted. And so, the absence of an implementation of design that was never attempted is not evidence of impossibility of design. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- 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=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
