- ...Complexity
- Work supported in part by
the Kennedy Memorial Trust, London.
- ...interactions
- Chaotic systems (in the mathematical
sense of the word) which inherently evade prediction can be incorporated
into this definition, by allowing the fact that for such systems we know
and understand, in a quantitative way, precisely how and when our
predictions will be deficient due to inadequacies in our knowledge of the
initial conditions.
- ...event
- Most scientists would not deem this nor its associated mode
of understanding as a sufficient characteristic of a definition of either
`explanation' or `understanding'.
- ...complexity'
- There are of course some completely
un-loaded uses of the word emergence, such as to describe the hardness of a
rock, or the colour of an object.
- ...cross
- I shall justify this statement later.
- ...advantage
- Especially if the usual time constraints are removed, as
in postal chess.
- ...intelligence
- The traditional knowledge-based approaches to AI are
based completely in conceptual ideas and `understanding'. My results
suggest progress and success by the use of such methods will be harder
to achieve than by the use of agent-based and connectionist approaches.
- ...options
- for early discussion on some of these points, see
[3][2].