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From: sticklen@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Jon Sticklen)
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Subject: Re: Simulating thinking is NOT like ...
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Date: 28 Feb 90 18:12:19 GMT
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on ywlee@aisunk.cs.uiuc.edu suggestion to "recognize hard goals"...


actually it would seem that "impossible" is the right word.
ie, this is not the same as the halting problem. eg, suppose
i have a goal of living to be 10,000 years old. i should recognize
this as impossible and abandon searching for ways to achieve the goal.
(note i am not saying that such goals may never be achieved, but in
a commonsense notion, such a goal is impossible.)


        ---jon---




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