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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (76957)	7/28/2011 10:31:38 AM
From: Joseph Silent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220429

If, as you say, Nature must perform combinatorial enumeration >>> Trying all possible ideas is the way nature makes progress, sorting the wheat from the chaff. Winnowing the winners from the losers. in order to "progress" (and observe that Nature and you may have entirely different meanings for that difficult word) then Nature is evaluating solutions by "brute-force". There is no real basis for that belief. People may choose to believe that because they can't identify intelligence in Nature, at least the kind of intelligence they associate with humans. Perhaps, instead, Nature uses approximation. Or Heuristics. Or Randomization. Like you, Nature has choices too, though unlike you, Nature has time at its disposal. I know that Nature has intelligence because the tree I look at through my window right now knows exactly what to do and when to do it, and does it without complaint, year after year. I may have intelligence, but my intelligence sometimes works against me and even against Nature. I wonder if Nature thinks its problems are NP-complete. I wonder if Nature thinks. en.wikipedia.org :)