Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!iear.arts.rpi.edu!kyriazis From: kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Emergent properties (was: What AI is exactly) Message-ID: Date: 30 Sep 90 22:31:41 GMT References: <18070001@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM> <3145@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 21 In article <3145@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> frank@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Frank Breen) writes: >I thought that for e.g. some aspects of crowd behavior were fairly >predictable even though individual behaviours within a crowd were >not. Surely this kind of thing would also apply to societies. > >... > >Another analogy is that no-one (as far as I know) understands all >established science and I don't think it is possible to do so, but >science still manages ok. > Alright. I probably should've phrased it different. I totally agree that some people in the society can comprehend some aspects of group behaviour. What I am arguing, is that there might be next level of consiousness of our society that is not comprehensible by human, just like human thought is incomprehensible to neurons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kyriazis kyriazis@rdrc.rpi.edu kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu