Re: jumping out of the system

Jeff Prideaux (JPRIDEAUX@GEMS.VCU.EDU)
Thu, 26 Oct 1995 10:53:53 -0400


One more quick comment in the case of the card game:
After the creative act of jumping out of the
system, changing the context, and resolving some
issue...one can then (after the fact) go back
and formalize the new situation...making it
computable. The catch is that it FIRST had to
be done by non-computable means...then later
it could be re-presented as an enlarged
single contextual computational system.

Seen in this light, computers are always followers,
never leaders... computers mimic something that
was already there...never originate.

One could argue "what about genetic algorithms?"
These algorithms originate on compuers by random
alteration and a seletive pressure. But in the
case of genetic algorithms, there is a single
meta system in place that provides a context for
the whole process to take place. There really is
no jumping out of a system.

Also consider that the two people playing cards
are able to reach a consensus on the trick
without utilizing randome choices or selection
pressures on future generations...

Jeff Prideaux