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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: The Turing Test is not a Trick
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In article <644@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>Beaver dam-building behavior, like bee foraging, etc., can be analyzed as
>a dynamic system converging to a fixed (or set) point. It doesn't show the
>complex periodic/chaotic dynamics seen in human social behavior. Peter
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 I think you are putting too much weight on complex dynamics.  They may not
be real.  For example there was more evidence of complex periodic/chaotic
dynamics in the Ptolemaic universe than in the Copernican universe.  But
it was all an artifact of the model.  The complex dynamics may say as
much about the observer as the observed.



