On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:54:31AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > Creating structure out of a random environment > requires intelligence, the ability to make choices > on one's own. Self-organization does not have > that capacity, it merely follows a computer program. > So self-organization programs cannot be alive, > having no intelligence and no free will. In short, > they have no self. Instead, they are slaved to a computer > programmer. >
This is confusing. How do you explain how self-organisation creates structure from initially disordered states? In the first sentence, you claim this requires intelligence. In the second sentence, you claim self-organisation is not. This is a contradiction. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
