Russell Wallace wrote:
On 3/19/07, *Ben Goertzel* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
According to the above definition, it is quite possible to engineer
systems with emergent properties, and to prove things about the
constraints on emergent system properties as well.
Sure. I'm not claiming it's impossible (see the "couldn't/didn't" bit
in my description). I'm only claiming that it's typically not an
efficient approach. That is, it's efficient in terms of improbability
(God's limiting resource), but wasteful of time and manpower (our
limiting resource). That is, in most cases (yes, I know about the
exceptions - but they are exceptions) a design that exhibits a lower
degree of emergence will achieve a given level of performance with
less effort, or a higher level of performance with the same effort,
than a design that exhibits a higher degree of emergence.
Well, I strongly suspect that human-level AGI is one of the exceptions...
-- Ben
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