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bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kort) writes:

| Noise is to thinking as genetic mutations are to evolution.  Most
| noise is counterproductive, but occasionally the noise leads to a
| cognitive breakthrough.  That's called serendipity.

Don't you think you are playing fast and loose with these concepts?
What you say noise is when you equate it with genetic mutation is not
the same as what a radio operator knows it to be, what a philosopher
knows it to be, and what the mother of a teenager in Windsor, ON
knows it to be.

I'm not saying that you haven't defined your concepts well enough (ai
scientists have more that adequately defined it, for their purposes).
My question is "What licenses you to shift the meaning of any
particular term?"

nrg

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