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From: weltyc@ (Chris Welty)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Knowledge Representation, A thought experiment
Summary: Just another "aren't I clever" posting
Keywords: Nature is dumb
Message-ID: <1989Oct11.025729.24410@rpi.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 89 02:57:29 GMT
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Reply-To: weltyc@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Chris Welty)
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This reminds me of a genetic algorithms paper where the author, in an
attempt to support his contention that mutation combined with genetic
recombination was an efficient form of search which is capable of
avoiding local maxima, stated that nature employed this technique
sucessfully (look at the complexity of our brains and the dexterity of
our hands....)

Made me wonder how smart Nature really was, using the GA to search for
something that would destroy it....


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