On Mon, 08 July 2002, Cliff Stabbert wrote:

TK>> The list of all medical situationa 
TK>> is huge. But finite.

CS> So you claim.  I beg to differ.  
CS> If your simulation, or whatever, is
CS> based on physics, and if even a single 
CS> atom can be in an infinity of
CS> states (positions, electron spin, 
CS> whatever degrees of freedom quarks

For the first aid - it is definitly not so. And for the medicine as well, also not. The latest should be bigger, yes. Still very finite. 

CS> could still be NP-hard.  

It's not. But even if it was, it doesn't mean, it is noncomputable.


CS> I think you're overconfident of the 
CS> ability of standard computational
CS> techniques to solve problems.  

That is my point. You can do GA with them - can't you? Just see, what the evolution is capable of. Needs a lot of computation - but so what, if you have it?

CS> Do you program?  Have you tried
CS> tackling the Traveling Salesman 
CS> problem?  Solve that, and I might be
CS> more convinced ;)

With GA? It's quite easy. But not the only possible way.

- Thomas




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