midwifetoad
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| Quote | | which I don't necessarily disagree with, but it might set the bar too high. e.g. It might deny consciousness to ants but allow it for Gil's checkers program. |
I wonder what Gil's checker program would do if its opponent made an illegal move.
I assume the program "won't allow" an illegal input, but of course, that's not the way the world at large works.
Both evolution and learning deal with unforeseeable events.
Suppose there were a meta-rule, that under certain narrowly defined conditions, an illegal move becomes legal. Would Gil's program find the meta-rule?
That's pretty much what evolution does, and what brains do.
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Any version of ID consistent with all the evidence is indistinguishable from evolution.
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