LORDY!

You folks do go on and on.

A humble request:  *Could one of you, sort of, ...you know:  Get To The
Point?*

I mean really.  For *days* we've been inundated with vague postulations
about math, music, ABMs, biomimicry (whatever that is) complexity (whatever
*that* is) compression, fidelity of resolution, mental disorders (don't ask
my opinion on this one), mentalism and calculus (cringe), etc. etc. etc.

But,

What is the point of this particular thread of expostulation?

Because if it is "Complexity is", or some such, could somebody just please
just say it?

Thank you very much.

-- 
Doug Roberts, RTI International
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> >> Btw, no, I don't mean [science can be pursued by a specified
> >> automaton].  I mean a growing, developing automaton. Evolving on its
> >> own accord as well as with editing by human experts. Much more useful
> >> than a textbook!
> >>
> >
> > The only problem with this belief is the vague
> > concept of "growing" or "progress".
> Growing in the sense of adding more and more ontologies for different
> kinds of experiments.  Growing in the toolbox sense of R or Mathematica
> growing.  Growing in the sense of machine-readable
> semantically-annotated data stores growing.
> So one might imagine internet publication of statistical regularities
> from automaton-initiated data mining, and then researchers (or even
> robots) testing them in the lab...
>
> Marcus
>
>
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