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From: muttiah@cs.purdue.EDU (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah)
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Subject: Re: Knowledge Representation, A thought experiment
Keywords: thought experiment
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Date: 11 Oct 89 01:04:42 GMT
References: <357@massey.ac.nz>
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In article <357@massey.ac.nz> ARaman@massey.ac.nz (A.V. Raman) writes:

>intelligent system at present known to us.  This is a direct
>consequence of the fact that the human brain is also the most
>efficient knowledge base known.  In this article, we analyze the

>If what we call creativity is a measuring stone to intelligence,
>hasn't Nature ever been as creative as we have.  Hasn't it learnt
>from mistakes, just as we do.  Or maybe this article itself is one of
>Nature's mistakes.
>                                                      - &/..


First, distinguish rational acts from irrational ones.  I happen to
believe (at least for the moment) that what are rational acts now
were irrational at one time or the other.