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... How drastic are the NFL theorems in genetic algorithms? ... Indeed, the Newtonian theory seems to have smaller axiomatic complexity than a relativistic...
Eray Ozkural
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... They are not that drastic really, because people are generally sensible enough not to use genetic algorithms on problems that are deceptive. Deceptive...
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Greetings, I had very much enjoyed the first two chapters of Chaitin's philosophical book Omega ( http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/omega.html ),...
Eray Ozkural
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... Did you read Schmidhuber's Goedel machines paper? He has worked on the same problem. Regards, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@...> Comp. Sci....
Eray Ozkural
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Sep 5, 2004
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(reply to #219) Eray, A few brief and tangential reactions to a few of your points. ... Number theory, as such, has always seemed like a wonderful game to me,...
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... Yes, so evolutionary programming, rather than genetic algorithms! ... That last sentence is interesting, but why its success in harnessing finites ...
Eray Ozkural
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Sep 7, 2004
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Hi Eray, you wrote: ... does it ... perhaps to ... You cannot isolate the termostat from its environment (at least not in this context). Think of zillion...
Klaus D. Witzel
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... So it becomes part of the fitness function? ... Thanks. [snip] ... Okay, in the old times, people thought the fitness function was a fixed thing. But it...
Eray Ozkural
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... [snip] ... Wasn't it Bateson who first called a thermostat a mind? I can't remember (and don't have my copy of Mind and Nature to hand) but that would make...
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... Might be, I don't know. Bateson has presented interesting arguments, so this may very well be the case. ... Yes, here the premise I am working on is that...
Eray Ozkural
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... Koko's linguistic abilities are legendary (if you google around, you should be able to find her online press conference). However, this is the first...
robin
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... Yes, it's interesting. They seem to be suggesting that her visual thinking ability is linked to her apparently successful use of sign language. Regards, --...
Eray Ozkural
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[A nice post from Jim on post-popper group. I think the reply is relevant to ai-philosophy as well] ... I agree, naive empiricism cannot explain what a theory...
Eray Ozkural
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Sep 8, 2004
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(reply to #222) ... Well, I'm not so sure. "Evolutionary programming" may mean this or that, I'm talking more about a different metaphysical description of...
jrstern
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http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/hons/projects/1999/Andrew.Snare/thesis.pdf An interesting thesis about typogenetics: encapsulating the knowledge of genetics...
Eray Ozkural
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http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/conceptnet/ Here is Push Singh's announcement on comp.ai. This seems interesting and highly relevant for people who work on text...
Eray Ozkural
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Sep 9, 2004
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... [...snip...] ... result in ... I now better understand, thank you. But "static environment" is a bit too unprecise: even the thermostat in the fruit fly's...
Klaus D. Witzel
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... [...snip...] ... 128 MB - 64 MB for ERROR prevention - 32 MB for automagically BUG fixing (includes bugs in security!) - 16 MB for REPRODUCTION - 8 MB for...
Klaus D. Witzel
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... That's done by having the complementary second DNA string, and cellular mechanisms already in place (also coded in the DNA?) to perform repairs. ... About...
jrstern
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Hello there, I have a simple math question, perhaps somebody among you knows the decisive answer. In Z, are there integers with an infinite number of digits? ...
Eray Ozkural
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Hi Eray... The elements of Z are all finite, in an infinitely increasing/decreasing chain. In order-theoretic terms, the covering relation is defined on...
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... [A nice post from Jim on post-popper group. I think the reply is relevant to ai-philosophy as well] ... system ... objects ... nature. ... in ... ...
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[This is a half-serious argument that the concept of mind evolves. I myself don't believe that this is the case, but it's a possibility.] For centuries, we...
Eray Ozkural
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Sep 12, 2004
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Greetings, On a second reading of the relevant sections, I have realized that I have made a gross error with respect to unnameability. Indeed the section named...
Eray Ozkural
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Sep 13, 2004
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... learning ... phase. ... on the same ... Sorry for the delay in the the response. I have a had a brief internet discussion with Schmidhuber. It can be found...
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... accurate ... uncertainty ... mind, ... of the ... as a ... can ... concept of) ... is our ... subject, ... our ... An example of this expanding of mind...
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... Is this precedence implied in the text? Is not this a big deal in theory of anthropology? ... the ... even if that ... Right. I predict that we will...
Eray Ozkural
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I think you have a lot to learn from continetal-philosophers like Nietczshe,Heidegger,Foucaoult,Derrida etc... Non analytical philosophy has been mostly...
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