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Subject: Re: Knowledge based program?

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 12:44:44 05/02/99

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On May 02, 1999 at 11:58:10, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi Peter:
>Besides all you say -correct- there is another issue: nobody here has defined
>that "knowledge". In fact It seems to be a collection of piece-meal shortcuts or
>empirical kind of wisdom extracted over centuries of human practice, I insist,
>of HUMAN practice. The same HUMAN practice produced by many centuries the wisdom
>that the Earth was flat and the time was absolute. So, to fill a source code
>with that piece meal cannot be a good idea. Imagine a race car with legs instead
>of wheels....
>Fernando

Hi Fernando,
Another interesting fact is that chess is in the same "magic" group as music,
math, art and some other fields. There are pieces of knowledge that aren't
personal experience and that sometimes makes young children play master chess,
compose music or being a mathematical genius. Within these fileds you can be
borned gifted. This kind of knowledge is so basic that it's "impossible" to
break down in measurable units to be used in a chess program.
Finally, what has music, chess, math and art to do with survival?
Darwin, say something!
//Peter



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