racteristically
human way of understanding the world around us but those which
would reward us with the greatest non-redundant gains from being
extended by artificial means.&gt;&gt;&gt;

Let us not be too hasty in making this distinction (said tongue in cheek, of
course, given my own hasty &quot;let's get going&quot; arguments of another thread we
are spinning). Surely we should continue basic research into how a system
with a hundred billion components, averaging three thousand connections
apiece, respondi