Glen E. P. Ropella wrote: > It's just a body of theoretical work that we > may or may not need as yet. I fully support the development of theory > prior to needing that theory. Fine, and I fully support the deconstruction of theory prior to using it! In what way does Genetic Programming not provide an efficient cause? Having a stochastic aspect, and the possibility to define new instructions, it seems to me to provide an escape from anything a human might have intended. This learning algorithm could escape the constraints of being a `tool' by being used in a robot with similar senses as ours and interacting with the conditions of the `real' world.
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