Evolution proves that algorithms can solve any problem: Difference between revisions

We say that [[algorithm]]ic processes — even clever ones — are simply ''incapable'' of responding to unexpected events in [[complex system]]s. Crisis management requires imagination, creativity, and the ability to quickly construct a [[narrative]] — qualities not possessed by any [[artificial intelligence]] known to the world today. Expecting preconfigured [[algorithm]]s to solve novel problems is like expecting Newtonian mechanics to explain the very events which, by their existence, [[falsify]] Newtonian mechanics. One needs to construct an entirely new model.

Here they might appeal to {{br|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}: it was [[evolution by natural selection]], after all, and ''only'' [[evolution by natural selection]] that as operated relentlessly, for 370 million years since the first legged fish crawled out of the primordial ooze and onto the shores of a new, terrestrial world. That single [[algorithm]] transformed those little flippy-finned mudsuckers into the highest type of sentient being yet known in this neighbourhood of the Galaxy: the [[ISDA ninja]]. And, to the best of our current thinking, all an [[ISDA ninja]] is doing is using her brain, and that is purely [[algorithm|algorithmic]], we see that human natural intelligence ''is'' an algorithmic process, ''created out of'' an algorithmic process.