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Article #8691Re: Late thoughts on T Test, rooms, and functions
From: Cliff Joslyn
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 06:19
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 06:19
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In article <8405@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> ele@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (eugene.l.edmon,lc,) writes: >In article <2762@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes: >>. No animal behavior, let alone human behavior resulting from >>thought, is strictly deterministic. >What makes you so sure about this? The latest argument on this >score seems to be Penrose's in The Emperor's New Mind. I think >he failed to make the case. I haven't read Penrose yet, but I believe my point is obvious, almost trivial: the behavior of animals is unpredictable, not just at the quantum level. They move of their own accord, each cell in their bodies moves on its own accord. Only in a Skinner box is complete predictability reasonably approximated. -- O-------------------------------------------------------------------------> | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu | Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton NY 13901, USA V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!bingvaxu!cjoslyn From: cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Late thoughts on T Test, rooms, and functions Message-ID: <2770@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Date: 10 Jan 90 06:19:16 GMT References: <2762@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <8405@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Reply-To: cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) Distribution: usa Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY Lines: 18