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To: edsheppa
Thank you for your post!

Algorithms are a notion invented by people. How can you possibly think they existed "at inception?"

Hubert Yockey, Information Theory and Molecular Biology and genetic algorithms.

Please see my above posts to js1138 for links and more information.

Language, like algorithm, is an invention of people. Either can be used to describe that which already exists.

3,827 posted on 01/08/2003 12:24:53 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
Language, like algorithm, is an invention of people.

Since you agree "algorithm" is an invention of people, you must agree it could not have preceded them. I conclude that either you think people have been around since the big bang or your "from inception" has some other, non-obvious meaning.

BTW I've looked at some of the articles you've linked recently. They read like science fiction devices. One basically posited that every conceivable mathematical outcome was physically realized. I don't see the point in looking at the conclusions drawn from that assumption.

3,831 posted on 01/08/2003 12:37:08 PM PST by edsheppa
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