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From: forbis@milton.u.washington.edu (Gary Forbis)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Re: Emergent properties (was: What AI is exactly)
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Date: 29 Sep 90 09:46:37 GMT
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It's a minor point.

In article <ZCN%#J*@rpi.edu> kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:
>Now, here
>is the flip side:  Neurons definetely cannot comprehend human
>behaviour, so a human (being part of a society) cannot comprehend
>the behaviour of the society.

I'm not sure your analogy follows.  It is possible to write a program
which when run writes its source.  There are many compression schemes.
If comprehension of society's behavior can be sufficinetly compressed
one person might be able to hold it in its entirity.

>  George Kyriazis                 kyriazis@rdrc.rpi.edu
> 				  kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu

--gary forbis