Turings Maschine und Blacks Box – Mechanische Intelligenz nach dem Feedback

Abstract

Religious-scale projects – and their comforts – have often scourged humankind. I’m thinking of Egyptian pyramids, Moslem jihads, Mongol hordes, Christian crusades, the Third Reich, world Communism, maybe science itself. Part of their hazard is that they become their own universe – an infinite regress of self-reference grounded nowhere. — Steward Brand, Long View“, in: Colonies ( fact operate by changing its neuron circuits by the growth of axons and dendrites, we could nev-ertheless make a model, within the ACE, in which this possibility was allowed for, but in which the actual construction of the ACE did not alter, but only the remembered data, describing the mode of behaviour applicable at any time.58