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RE: Are there any limits?

• To: 'Benjamin Franz' <snowhare@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Are there any limits?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:14:49 -0500

Determine first if these are actually problems (have an end solution) or 
polarities (are interdependent and to be managed).  Does the requirement 
for self-awareness introduce a polar requirement or can it be broken 
down into a series of problems that have solutions with some remainder 
that are polar and must be managed (see prior remark on rising costs of metadata)?

See http://www.polaritymanagement.com/frame02.htm

All questions are not resolved by yes or no in all cases. 
The Turing Test is context-dependent: it depends on who 
must be fooled.  It is solvable given a specific fool 
and polar in that fools won't remain such but manageable 
because a new fool can always be found.

Thanks to the categoricalAbstraction list for that reference.

len

From: Benjamin Franz [mailto:snowhare@n...]

_Prove_ that natural systems are "self-aware" (as opposed to just a
convincing simulation there-of) and we'll discuss.

;)

> Formally define "self-aware" and the answer will be either "yes" or "no"
> :-))

'Formally define.'

Hold on. I'd like to introduce you to someone.

Mr. Godel...Mr. Bullard.     O.o

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