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Science Shown your Koan Wrong!

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-03 6:18

https://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/toolbox/virtual-brain-suggests-neural-connections-form-randomly
junctions between neurons form randomly and not as the result of chemical signals

"Why is the net wired randomly?" asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play," Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes.
"Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

Name: Anonymous 2014-05-03 8:01

How does that falsify the Minsky-Sussman koan? I think in that story Minsky just wanted to tell Sussman that randomly wired doesn't imply absence of preconceptions, just like closing your eyes doesn't imply the emptiness of the room (it could still be empty, or not).

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