Monday, February 2, 2009  Evolution We Can Believe In  The
raging controversy over Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues.
1. My take is that there was Descartes who based everything on
reason. Then there was David Hume, who said that if you don't
experience something directly, then you can't know it's true.
Then Immanuel Kant kind of took the best of both and said that
there are things we can know a priori but that there are limits
to pure reason.      Personally, my heart is with the counter-
enlightenment. The emphasis on positivism has taken us to the
brink of technological insanity. One of my heroes was Jean-
Jacques Rousseau who spoke of the noble savage.      Basically I
am admitting that your post went waaaayy over my head.    2.
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Please notice the post on Saturn and the post on Mars; then
notice the quote from Chomsky that we have been under the
influence of propaganda which began to intensify about WWI.
Propaganda is