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To: Doctor Stochastic
"Which side of the issue do you wish to argue today?"

Nice jab, but missing the point on purpose hardly advances science. Tsk, tsk.

The feedback mechanism proposed in post #12 injected intelligence into the monkeys typing the first sentence of Hamlet because it wanted the monkeys to use a dictionary to modify their behavior (i.e. keep some work and not repeat other work).

That's not a non sequitur and pointing it out doesn't play both sides of the fence. It's not like I am claiming that natural feedback can't exist. What I'm pointing out is that the feedback mechanism in question injects intelligence into the equation, and yes, that implies some form of intelligent intervention.

553 posted on 12/09/2002 9:15:03 PM PST by Southack
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To: Southack
Your statement was the unequivocal: Of course "feedback" implies intelligence.

If you wish to modify your statement, okay.

557 posted on 12/09/2002 9:25:26 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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