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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