More on non-algorithmic computing from Penrose:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Mind
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind>
but I don't see how the brain can use quantum mechanics since it's
biochemical and operates on a different scale. Has anyone read
Penrose's book and can recommend it or not (even tho' it was awarded a
prize by the Royal Society)?
Robert C
Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
Didn't it take an algorithm (an Inference Engine) to process the
heuristics? Also show me some silicon that doesn't use an algorithm
somewhere. So do you suppose the Mind Machine Project is a way to
break free of this computing/algorithmic model?
Robert C
Pamela McCorduck wrote:
Most of early AI was heuristics, not algorithms. Some algorithms were
incorporated into expert systems, in the belief that if an algorithm
could solve the problem, fine; if not, heuristics might. But it was
always *might*. True, computers can't solve all problems, neither can
humans.
P.
"A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey;
The ways deep and the weather sharp.
The very dead of winter."
T.S. Eliot
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