"Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>How do these filters work? They cannot work algoritmically, that's been
>proven rigorously. Penrose didn't prove it, but he has some nice proofs of
>the limits of algorithmic proofs in his book "the Emperor's New Mind"
Are you familiar with neural networks at all?
The point is that they do very simple computations in a massively parallel
way and get approximate answers. They are not guaranteed to get an exact
answer, and can't follow a "logical" progression. It's like solving a
NP-Complete problem; if you're allowed to guess intelligently you may come
up with a 99% answer much more quickly than you could every algorithmically
determine a 100% answer.
Joshua
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