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- From: "Gary A. Cziko" <g-cziko@UIUC.EDU>
- Subject: On Purpose
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- [from Gary Cziko 930102.1800 GMT] (STILL typed "92" first!)
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- Rick Marken (930102.1200) warns Bill Powers:
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- >If you don't write this book, Bill, I will! (Visions of a PBS
- >documentary are already starting to dance in my head). That was
- >a really incredible post.
-
- No fair! I was planning to write such a book after finishing _Without
- Miracles_. I was going to call it _On Purpose_ (I could then tell people
- that I was writing a book "on purpose"). Bill's perspective of animism to
- anti-animism to control gives a wonderful organizing framework for the
- book. But since the current book is taking me so long (when my wife keeps
- telling people "My husband has almost finished his book" they reply "He
- must be a slow reader") I will let Bill and Rick take the first crack.
- With the book should come a computer disk with Rick's computer demos and an
- appendix with "my" collection of manual demonstrations of control (mostly
- stolen from others).
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- There should also be a videotape companion to the book. It would include
- both the computer and manual demonstrations of control. I've have just
- viewed such a video which is a companion to John Koza's _Genetic
- programming_ and it is a very effective way to demonstrate the algorithms
- he describes in the book. And just about everybody (in North America at
- least) seems to a videotape player these days. This would also give Rick a
- start on preparing his PBS special (see what you've started, Ed?).--Gary
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