Re: <nettime> The Age of Spiritual Machines (Review)

[Roberto Verzola <rverzola@phil.gn.apc.org>]

 >This [heuristics] is not the kind of thinking that a computer can do,
 >and yet this is essential type of thinking to solve social problems of
 >all kinds, especially scientific problems.

Have you read about the program called Eurisko and its descendants?
They are supposed to be good at heuristics and have even made some
mathematical discoveries...

Roberto Verzola

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