Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!jstern From: jstern@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: the baby bootstrap (determining input...) Keywords: drives, curiosity, George Kelly Message-ID: <25FF5166.20636@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 15 Mar 90 08:25:09 GMT References: <725@berlioz.nsc.com> <720@berlioz.nsc.com> <6603@hydra.gatech.EDU> <5061@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <5130@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <4972@newton.praxis.co.uk> Reply-To: jstern@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 27 Regarding the importance of curiousity in a baby, in neural nets, and in ourselves, I recall a quote I came across a few years ago: "Lao Tzu believed that everything that exists comes into reality through the polarity of *yin* and *yang*. He called the specific physical laws and cycles that control and govern reality the *Tao*, and suggested that the actions of the *Tao* reflect the purpose of a larger entity (the Absolute). So if reality came about because the Absolute wanted to know itself, then our evolutionary destiny must be to help it get a good look by investigating, observing, and emulating nature." --From R.L.Wing's new translation of the "Tao Te Ching" ISBN 0-385-19637-7 ...just a thought. Jeff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Internet: jstern@orion.oac.uci.edu | Same? Different? | | CompuServe: 72647.1527@compuserve.com | I can't tell anymore. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Internet: jstern@orion.oac.uci.edu | Same? Different? | | CompuServe: 72647.1527@compuserve.com | I can't tell anymore. | ----------------------------------------------------------------------