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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Building Artificial Animals (was Re: Cargo Cult Science)
Message-ID: <1992Jan17.131906.31448@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <1992Jan16.061242.21335@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Jan16.190930.14079nagle@netcom.COM> <YAMAUCHI.92Jan16220910@heron.cs.rochester.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 13:19:06 GMT
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In article <YAMAUCHI.92Jan16220910@heron.cs.rochester.edu> yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
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>	I share your enthusiasm for this avenue of research -- in
>fact, this is the area I would like to pursue for my Ph.D. research.
>However, I am wary of defining the difference in animal capabilities
>on the basis of DNA encodings.  Building a robot mouse would be a
>significant achievement, but going from a mouse to a human is
>definitely nontrivial.

  Once you have build the mouse, going to the human level should be a
cinch, although perhaps a computationally expensive cinch.  By the time
the mouse is built you already understand what the real problems are,
and already have the algorithms.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


