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Article #9350Re: Announcement: The Temporal Neuron Revolution
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
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In <34352c7c.1516199@news.earthlink.net> savainl@earthlink.net (Louis Savain) writes: > Thanks. I think you have a somewhat pessimistic view of the power >of inductive learning. Sure, it is a trial and error processes that >can easily give rise to superstitions, as you pointed out, but this >trial and error process should not be underestimated. It can also be >used to send men to the moon and invent intelligent, conditionable >robots. Where is the evidence that induction can be used to send men to the moon? I don't see anything convincing, either in the philosophy literature, or in the literature on machine learning, which would support such a claim. Carnap admitted that he could not explain physical law on the basis of induction, and that in the terminology of confirmationism, such physical laws had been confirmed only to degree 0. (You can find those comments in Carnap's "Logical foundations of probability).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d5b4,10bd0b81cba64349 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d5b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca9b,10bd0b81cba64349 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca9b,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,10bd0b81cba64349 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public X-Google-Thread: 10d04f,10bd0b81cba64349 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d04f,public X-Google-Thread: 101fc6,10bd0b81cba64349 X-Google-Attributes: gid101fc6,public X-Google-Thread: f6b1a,10bd0b81cba64349 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6b1a,public From: rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: Announcement: The Temporal Neuron Revolution Date: 1997/10/05 Message-ID: <618uoq$3fs@ux.cs.niu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 278078267 Distribution: inet References: <875704714snz@longley.demon.co.uk> <34352c7c.1516199@news.earthlink.net> Organization: Northern Illinois University Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.theory.self-org-sys,comp.theory.dynamic-sys,comp.ai.neural-nets,fr.comp.ia