[FRIAM] enough of Robert Rosen

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
> It's just a body of theoretical work that we
> may or may not need as yet.  I fully support the development of theory
> prior to needing that theory.
Fine, and I fully support the deconstruction of theory prior to using it!
In what way does Genetic Programming not provide an efficient cause?  
Having a stochastic aspect, and the possibility to define new 
instructions, it seems to me to provide an escape from anything a human 
might have intended.   This learning algorithm could escape the 
constraints of being a `tool' by being used in a robot with similar 
senses as ours and interacting with the conditions of the `real' world.

Marcus