Engineering should *NEVER* involve intuition. Engineering does not
require
exact answers as long as you have error bars but the second that you
revert
to intuition and guesses, it is *NOT* engineering anymore.
Well, we may be using the word intuition differently.
Given your examples, we
Rules of thumb are not intuition ... but applying them requires
intuition... unlike applying rigorous methods...
However even the most rigorous science requires rules of thumb (hence
intuition) to do the problem set-up before the calculations start...
ben
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Mark
I don't agree with Mark Waser that we can engineer the complexity out
of intelligence.
I agree with Richard Loosemore that intelligent systems are
intrinsically complex systems in the Santa Fe Institute type sense
I hate to do this but . . . .
Richard's definition of complexity is *NOT* the
I said and repeat that we can engineer the complexity out of intelligence
in the Richard Loosemore sense.
I did not say and do not believe that we can engineer the complexity out
of intelligence in the Santa Fe Institute sense.
OK, gotcha...
Yeah... IMO, complexity in the sense you ascribe
I just want to make one observation on this whole thread, since I have
no time for anything else tonight.
People are riding roughshod over the things that I have actually said.
In some cases this involves making extrapolations to ideas that people
THINK that I was saying, but which I have
