On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
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> Incorrect things are wrapped up with correct things in peoples' minds
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> However, pure slowness at learning is another part of the problem ...
>


Mark seems to be thinking of something like the checklist that the ISP
technician walks through when you call with a problem. Even when you
know what the problem is, the tech won't listen. He insists on working
through his checklist, making you do all the irrelevant checks,
eventually by a process of elimination, ending up with what you knew
was wrong all along. Very little GI required.

But Ben is saying that for evaluating science, there ain't no such checklist.
The circumstances are too variable, you would need checklists to infinity.

I go along with Ben.

BillK


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