On 12/05/2010 12:29 AM, Invisible wrote:
> (Of course, the intelligent commentator will realise that it's actually
> the human operator that is learning, not the matchboxes.)

No.

The point is that the human operator does not apply intelligence other 
than following a mechanical process.  A sufficiently sophisticated wind 
up device could execute the algorithm.

The change in the box states is what 'learns'.  This happens by removing 
possibilities that lead to a loss.

So it *is* the matchboxes that learn.

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