CDR: Re: Think cash

[David Honig]

At 11:54 AM 10/12/00 -0400, James A.. Donald wrote:
>     --
>At 12:59 PM 10/11/2000 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> > An interesting idea has surfaced on the freenet-chat list: is it
possible to
> > build a program that creates some sort of a puzzle, whose answer the
> > generating computer knows (and can verify), but which can only be answered
> > by a human being, not by a computer? [Additional requirement: it should be
> > easy for the human to answer the puzzle.]
>
>Origami world.
>
>Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly 
>sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the 
>object is generated.  Displays 2D image of 3D object.
>
>Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image 
>from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the 
>object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on 
>a plane.

You seem to be supposing that human perceptual algorithms (and the illusions
they produce) are somehow unknowable or unreplicable by nonanimal machinery.
This is meat chauvinism.  

Look into David Marr's _Vision_ for starters... or Grossburg's (of BU) stuff..

Now back to your regularly scheduled spam laced with cryptography