Ricardo Ribeiro Gudwin wrote:
> Don Mikulecky corrects a HUGE ERROR!!!!!!!:
>
> > neural networks and genetic algorithms are NOT (ERASE NOT
> PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!)mechanistic in the language we
> > have
> > so carefully developed. ANYTHING algorithmic is mechanistic (capable of
> being
> > computed by a universal Turing machine in the spirit of Church's thesis)
>
> Don, I became curious here ... you said that NN's and GA's are NOT
mechanistic,
> and that ANYTHING algorithmic is mechanistic.
That's cause my Altzheimer's kicked in again...SORRY!!!! HUGE MISTAKE!!!(see
how I
blame it on a mechanism?)
> But NN's and GA's are a type of
> algorithms (in fact GA = genetic ALGORITHM) ! A possible difference is that
> they are SELF-MODIFYING ALGORITHMS.
> So, in this sense such SELF-MODIFYING ALGORITHMS are complex ?
> Or do you just made a typo (... NOT non-mechanistic ...) ?
> Regards,
> Ricardo
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Thanks much...I hope everyone sees the correction!
Don