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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Keywords: Matter, Energy, Information, Knowledge, Values, Free Will
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Date: 9 Dec 88 18:52:44 GMT
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In article <42571@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes:
>Not only is there room for the possibility of indeterminacy, some
>of us deliberately encorporate elements of randomness into our
>behaviors.

Interesting.  Do you use a true or a pseudo random number generator
to introduce this randomness?

>One of the more interesting elements that is added to the human
>body is the element of information. 

The information necessary to reproduce the organism seems to be
encoded in DNA.  One would suppose that knowledge and values are
also encoded in physical systems whether neural networks or something
as yet undiscovered.

> (There is at least one
>school of physics which proposes that the Universe is composed
>of matter, energy, and information.)

What school is this?  I hadn't heard of it.

>deference to our Eastern philosophical friends, we may think of
>such information as "Patterns of Organic Energy". 

How does this Organic Energy differ from other forms of energy?  Does
it have separate conservation laws?  Is this a new form of vitalism?