From: sylvia m. (max@sentex.net)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 06:01:46 MDT
finally, after 23 years, i understnad something Larry Biesenthal
was trying to make me understand in AI class. i kept saying "either/or"
instead of "if/else'. i kept thinking _proceedurally_. in stepped,
consecutive proceedures, it doesn't matter which you think, "either/or"
or "if/else". but, _conceptually_, there is an ENORMOUS difference.
this is what i just couldn't get. conceptuially, "either/or" is
decalrative, not operational, and if it WERE operational it would cause
massive parallelism and be a problem, unless you could figure out how to
use it somehow. this "somehow" ir rife with possibilities.
i think this is one teensy instance of how conceiving ideas is
different from model-able thinking. i find these things really really
hard to see.
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