> neural networks and genetic algorithms are NOT 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. 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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