On 2015-09-09 16:01, Joran Booth wrote:
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> This is a really interesting thread.
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> Here are my two cents:
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> 1) Machines are inherently rule-based. Even heuristics are rules. To
> my knowledge, there is no machine that has been created yet hat does
> not have a rule-structure underlying it.
> 2) Design is design precisely because it is NOT rule based (Jonassen
> 2000, Toward a Design Theory of Problem Solving).
> 3) Novice designers rely heavily on rules, whereas experts do not
> (Dorst 2004, The Problem of Design Problems), so even if machines
> could design, they would be inferior to human designers.
>
> Based on these points, I would conclude that machines cannot design.
> Can they make beautiful works from very complicated algorithms, but I
> would argue that this is not design. It is math (which is often quite
> beautiful).
>
> - -Joran Booth
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Purdue University
>
Hi Joran,
Interesting.
Let's consider for the sake of the current debate that machines are
rule-based.
I have two questions, then:
1) What evidence is there that humans are not rule-based themselves?
2) What happens to any rule-based entity, if the first rule is: "define
your own rules" ?
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