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Article 5863 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: Universe is a big place ,,,
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Date: 23 May 92 12:06:05 GMT
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James Anderson has been looking at people do arithmetic when they haven't
learned the formal rules. It's very informal and very approximate.
Goedel's theorem is not representative of normal human cognition, which
perhaps tells us that cognition is an evolved capability, with the same
sorts of limitations and ragged edges we find in sensory and motor
processing. 

If we look at multiplayer games, perhaps it is more valuable to understand
what the opponents are trying to do than it is to be able to calculate the
optimum strategy that works whatever the opponents do. Cognition would
then evolve towards having an effective informal simulation of others
rather than towards having an effective formal analysis capability. 

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com



