[FRIAM] enough of Robert Rosen

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
>> Anything that requires significant short
>> term memory and integration of broad but scare evidence is probably
>> something a computer will be better at than a human.
>>     
>
> That's just plain silly in terms of RR's ideas because _humans_ program
> the computer.  Until/unless we come up with a computer that programs
> itself, or a computer that programs another computer, or something of
> that sort, computers will _never_ be better at any task than humans.
>   
As you know, one form is Genetic Programming.  
> I.e. in RR terms, humans are THE canalizing "efficient cause" for any
> computer system.
>   
Fine, so let's move on from RR terms.   It seems to be a dead end!

Marcus