Re: Neural netss (was Re: death of the mind.)

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:29:54 GMT

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:58:27 +0100, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>In article <41532b7c.43462373@netnews.att.net>, Lester Zick
><lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> writes
>>On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:22:52 +0100, David Longley
>><David@longley.demon.co.uk> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>>>
>>>Leaving aside the usual silly, phobic abuse, you (Verhey, Zero etc) need
>>>to grasp that all education is "problematic", so naturally the science
>>>of behaviour is "problematic" too.
>>
>>David, I'm somewhat confused here.
>
>If only you'd meditate on that little insight.
>
>>How do you segue from the
>>proposition that all education is problematic (quotes deleted because
>>the word is perfectly clear) to the non sequitur that the science of
>>behavior is also problematic too?
>
>It really is a waste of time given your history. You distort anything
>you are told in the vain belief that you're being imaginative and
>creative. This seems to be a common misconception about the nature of
>creativity here. The fact is that you have to put a lot of time and
>effort in first - years, decades. Patty, for one seems to have the same
>sort of misconceptions. These are popular but they're misguided. This is
>why neither of you come up with anything new, and why you keep getting
>so much wrong.

Did you mean to answer my question, David, or merely babble on
evasively the way evolution has conditioned you to behave?

>Saying it isn't so, won't make it not so.
>--
>David Longley

Regards - Lester

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