Look no further than me. I don't know how my component parts work.
John, do you have a recommendation for a book on geometric algebra?
Frank
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How idoes genetic programming with automatic function definition not achieve
this?
From: Friam on behalf of John Kennison
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 6:21 AM
To: "Friam@redfish. com"
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Open Letter, draft
I like the idea of a non-sequential machine, or perhaps, a being, whose
operation is NOT determined by knowing how its component parts function. I
don’t see how to go about constructing such a thing, unless I assume that there
are laws of physics which remain undiscovered. So for now, I will
P.S. I just realized that when Frank said "Look no further than me" he was not
referring to his considerable knowledge, but to himself. It's a nice point.
JK
From: John Kennison
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:32:37 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied
Hi Marcus, Frank, et al,
I am a mathematician who knows category theory, which Rosen seems to have found
exciting. My thinking about a machine that would learn how to reprogram itself
is surely at a naive level, but it seems to me that it would feel more like a
being than a machine. All I
Frank, Jon, John, etc.,
I wish you guys would look at Rosen. I would be happy to loan you my copy. In
Chapter 4, The Concept of State, he is arguing that assumptions deep in
Newtonian Mechanics preclude or constrain a discussion of biological
organization (let alone, a psychological one)
Sorry, John. It was a weak attempt to be humorous.
Also, I mistyped. I meant "algebraic geometry" when I was asking for a
book recommendation.
Frank
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Frank Wimberly
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Hi Frank,
I didn't realize it was supposed to be a joke --it seemed like a relevant
example. I'm not an algebraic geometer but:
. . . there is a historical survey in
https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf
Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related
Well, I'm not a sequential machine although my wife has her doubts.
Thanks for the algebraic geometry suggestions. Jon Zingale and I will try
to master the subject. Others may join us on Saturday mornings if they
wish.
Frank
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John writes:
“Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do which we
can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?”
A sequential computer program could simply be a loop that sampled random
numbers and indexed into the address space of the computer program
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