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From: powers@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (David Powers )
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Subject: Re: Fluid vs. Crystallized Intelligence
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Date: 23 Nov 90 10:40:04 GMT
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jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger) writes:
>Do you believe that if we put enough books in the library it
>will start having ideas too?

Yes!  If you represent the books and the library the right way.

>Having lots of things of one sort doesn't automatically turn
>it into a thing of another sort.

See the discussions on emergence and self-organization.  If the
units have the right potential for relationships, significant
properties can emerge through self-organization (or other effects).

It's started to snow here today - so I'll take that as an example.
Have you looked at a snow flake recently - self-organized from a
collection of water molecules (cf "books"), in the right environment
(cf "library").

David
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