humans and logic

[Geoffrey Gerrietts]

> From: thinkit [mailto:thinkit8 at lycos.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:36 PM
> 
> nobody INVENTED logic.  logic exists outside of 
> time...anybody can come upon it.
> what of the person on the deserted isle who comes up with the 
> same principles?

The debate's still out on that. A good many contemporary philosophers are
somewhat of the more chic opinion that all human modes of thought are
artifacts of biological necessity or artifacts of language-based
communication.

The very fact that some decimal items can't be represented effectively in
powers of two argues against widespread use. The supremacy of logic is
undercut by the very notion that some artifacts of existence, representable
by decimal numbers, but not easily representable in terms of powers of two.

Move to hex, and you'll talk to machines quite naturally. The machines are
only a small part of the world we must teach them to model, however.

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Geoff Gerrietts <geoff at homegain.com>
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