On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 02:15:26 +0100, George Myszka wrote:
>The phrase 'cognitive conceit' (?attrib. J. Sanfey) springs to mind.
>More likely is the fact that the decision nodes depend upon axiomatic
>data, work on population statistics and do not process values, personal
>utilities or continuous variation very well (not that these couldn't be
>programmed in). General Practice has been trying to get away from the
>reductionist attitude exemplified by computers and many people still
>think of it as an 'infernal' machine.
I have 2 attributes/qualities that are important for my thought
processes:
1. Non-linearity
2. I am a lumper not a splitter (non-reductionist)
Computers hitherto have not been very smart about either ;-)
Ahmad
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