Choice is an Illusion? LO4526

Roy Winkler (rwinkler@iquest.net)
Sun, 31 Dec 1995 22:11:07 -0800

Replying to LO4505 --

John Paul Fullerton wrote:
> Roy responded to some of my earlier comments
> Not knowing the letters
> of the alphabet before learning them doesn't seem like it should be
> counted as an error.

Let me make my point more clearly. Not knowing the letters of the
alphabet before learning them is not an error, it is an ignorance. The
term ignorance, used in its literal sense means lack of knowledge.
You may be interpreting the meaning of my comments to primarily
digital situations which have go/no-go answers. I would apply my
contentions to more analog situations, such as learning how much to turn
the wheel of an automobile in order to get it to perform a 90 degree turn
at 17 miles per hour within a 40 foot radius. In these analog situations,
one must make errors in order to learn. If one merely steers the one
correct course by chance, then one does not have a useful map of the
territory. One has defined "what to do" without defining "what not to
do."

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