Re: Think For Yourself... Or Let Machines Do It For You?

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 14:38:01 MDT


J.R. Molloy wrote:

> but real life requires real immediacy, which means figuring things out for
> yourself in the here and now instead of relying on the literature. This is
> why the evolution of machines that can think for themselves augers to
> supercede humans (most of whom do not think for themselves, but rather
> rely on the literature).

Huh? Most humans rely on experience (so they don't have to think
about what they "should" do at the time when they need to do it).
Most experience comes from trying things yourself or being told
that thus and so works for someone else. Rarely do people rely
on good scientific literature. More likely they rely on the
popular press which is distilling what we have learned into
sound bites.

Now, in the future, as scientific literature hopefully becomes freer
*and* as it becomes directly accessible by our brains, then we will
be able to think things out carefully backreferencing to the scientific
literature as nessary. And that will be a marvelous day indeed.

Robert



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