RE: computer-go: Go and chaos theory

["Xu, Mousheng" <moushengxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 7:38 AM -0500 10/26/99, Ray Easton wrote:
>Systems with a finite number of states are by definition not chaotic.

Thank you, for injecting a note of sanity in this discussion which was
increasingly resembling the PoMo game.

[The PoMo game: (after Post Modern philosopers, the players who have
raised
this game to its highest level)
 1. Take a theory from the mathematical sciences, the more difficult and
abstract, the better.
 2. Draw parallels with an unrelated subject.
 3. Claim the conclusions of the original theory explain behavior of the
unrelated subject.
 4. When pressed that the unrelated subject doesn't satisfy conditions
under which the results of the mathematical theory were derived, protest
that "it's only an analogy".
 5. After suitable time interval, go to 3. ]

* Interesting. But simulation works. One example is applying Normal
Distribution to weight, height, ... While in theory, normal distriuction
has domain over negative infinity to positive infinity, but in practice,
there has never been negative weight or height for human beings.