Comment Re:Sounds sexy, but (Score 1) 77
"We would like to believe this", because we are coming closer and closer to understanding how things work. Instead of recreating the human mind (like neural networks), we are trying to model it by observation. Genetic algorithms and genetic programming are an extension of the idea of neural networks, and Stuart Kauffman's biological feedback systems (sorta like cellualr automata). The reason why they are so popular is that they are coming closer to "feeling right" in that they make more sense to us.
Neuaral networks are kludgy, never really made sense to me, there always seemed to be somethine missing. Genetic programming/algorithms are coming closer to how we think we think/function, or how any biological self-organizing system behaves: feedback loops, multi-processing, and fitness according to some (possibly) external stimulus.
Even if genetic algorithms/programming is an extension of neural networks (or even matrix manipulation), who cares? They are interesting and we are getting closer to the idea of "distibuted systems", and here I use the word systems to refer to _any_ collection of entities that communicate in one way or another. After all, isn't the whole universe a system? The question isthen, what are the constituents? Is anything not?
Neuaral networks are kludgy, never really made sense to me, there always seemed to be somethine missing. Genetic programming/algorithms are coming closer to how we think we think/function, or how any biological self-organizing system behaves: feedback loops, multi-processing, and fitness according to some (possibly) external stimulus.
Even if genetic algorithms/programming is an extension of neural networks (or even matrix manipulation), who cares? They are interesting and we are getting closer to the idea of "distibuted systems", and here I use the word systems to refer to _any_ collection of entities that communicate in one way or another. After all, isn't the whole universe a system? The question isthen, what are the constituents? Is anything not?
