-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:47 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] enough of Robert Rosen 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? Because you need to look beyond the physical plane of existence into the spiritual to see that the soul is the real administrator of the life's path. Genetics is simply the hardware. Genetics is not actually causal and nothing physical can ever be causal. See The Kybalion, Principles of Hermes. 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. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1214 - Release Date: 1/8/2008 1:38 PM _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 5220 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> for free now!
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