Underdetermination – Uncommon Descent

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design

William Dembski: Why computers will likely never perform abductive inferences

Computers require complete data to come to a correct conclusion but humans often work very well with incomplete data.

relatd JVL at 123, A little chemistry lesson. Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water. If you take a tank with... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes PM1What Gödel did was prove that, for a specific class of formal systems, there will be statements constructed in that... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Jerry: If anything actually emerged, it would destroy itself in a very short time. Nothing more has to be said.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Jerry: It’s an old computer (Apple laptop) but with most recent system for it. Me too; two different Macs in... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 Addition to my 118 The rules of a game tell you what is a legitimate move in the game. In... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd "anti-physicalist"? Seriously? Elaborate arguments confuse the issue. There is no "emergent" anything. It is fiction. As in fiction. [said with... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd What a horrible, horrible article. As a working editor, I would have had a long talk with the writer about... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
PyrrhoManiac1 @116 If “strongly emergent” means “caused by the physical anyway even though it cannot be explained by it”, then the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 @112 In my view, Gödel’s theorem makes clear that each system is necessarily based on axioms that cannot be proved... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Emergence is a nonsense idea. Yet thousands of comments are wasted on it. It is the least likely way for... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Targets become a question of: Which target is most convenient to hit just now? The Montagnards always destroy the Girondins... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
asauber "why Darwinism is not longer needed" News, The shine on it came off, due to it being obviously flawed. But...... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
News All true, bornagain, and thanks! The reason Darwinism survived various purges is that it was a useful weapon in Cancel... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
jerry has a beginning, a middle, and an end that’s unfolding over time. Any other scenario leads to absurdities. It's not... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes PM1 @111 In “Strong and weak emergence” Chalmers defines strong emergence as “not deducible even in principle from the laws... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry I will ask a question which no one seems to want to address: What happens to an ecology when a... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry I have restarted the computer I am using and still no editing of comments. So a reset is not the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry we must understand the mindset we are dealing with That is nonsense. The objective is lots of comments about irrelevant... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes PM1 Ori: Can it be said of each axiom of a system that is not the case that both the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 @80 (and a few others) I don't think that strong emergence as Chalmers defines it entails a violation of the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 Can it be said of each axiom of a system that is not the case that both the “statement and... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...