GENTUT72.TXT
 
 
General Tutorial for Lisa GJ2 Fic3 
-- the f3 language explained as a series  
of tiny essays
 
Written by Aristo Tacoma with L.A.H. 
Date: 2011:3:3 
Numbers 01..99 in this series of gentutNN 
are circulated as needed, when more recently  
written articles make earlier ones unnecessary. 
Each article: copyright author, further distribution                          
license the usual www.yoga4d.org/cfdl.txt. 
 
Kids: there are other tutorials for you. 
But you should find pieces here and there 
which are easy to read. In B9, use the 
search function, CTR-F or F4 within each. 
 
Beware ;-)  This is written as a flow, quickly, 
and wherever there is a reference to concrete 
f3 syntax, it may have been written from memory 
and so not every word is guaranteed to be  
written here exactly correct. Search up with the 
CTR-F and repeated search CTR-L in the F3DOCS 
manual or in example programs if things here 
are not clear enough or precise enough for your 
present purposes. Good luck!!! 
 
 
 
 
***AVOIDING HUBRIS IN HOW PROGRAMS ARE DESCRIBED -- AND 
AVOIDING IMPLYING BELIEF IN "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"
 
It is a gigantic neopopperian proposition to claim of 
any computer program that it is smart. It is an even 
more gigantic proposition to claim of any computer 
program that it is smarter than human beings. What is 
done of current programming approaches in the industries 
on Earth in the 21st century has tons of hubris and 
little of smartness. Journalists ought to think twice 
before quoting computer programmers and their bosses 
who, eager to achieve prestige and/or money, claim that 
they have a "smart" product. A product involving a 
computer may outperform human beings on certain skills 
in certain areas -- as a statisticaly research result. 
This does not mean that they have got an understanding 
of smartness or intelligence as such.
  Indeed, the whole concept of artificial intelligence 
is wrought with a localist false metaphysics. It has 
been championed by people who, like the behaviourists 
who took to pre-quantum darwinism in their combat 
against the spiritualistic natural interpretations of 
quantum empirics -- apart from the mechanistic and 
nihilistic philosophies of Albert Einstein and Niels 
Bohr, respectively -- consider all activity in any 
location as entirely separate from all other activities 
except by push-pull mechanical forces operating 
gradually in moving effects from one place to another 
given some time.
  The whole notion of "artificial intelligence" is no 
more coherent than newtonian mechanics: it is crude, it 
is unphilosophical, and it breaks down in essence.
  There may be ways, indeed there are ways, in which -- 
given an intense understanding of what we here loosely 
can call synchronicity fields -- programs can be made so 
as to be said to participate in this, more or less 
fully, also with RFFG. That is however not achieved by 
those mindless so-called scientists who go about 
carelessly talking about "simulation of mind": they are 
but simulating idiocy. 
  In order to stimulate and honor the human mind so that 
it can get more enlightened, -- and its enlightenment, 
when it comes, is always relative; and it has not come 
-- so we are talking of stimulating to clarity in 
glimpses -- we must in general sharpen the sense of 
what's what. The fluid dancing and also logical and also 
intuitive flow of the empathic, sensitive mind can be 
stimulated by original writing and by presentations with 
artistic sensitivity of graphical components on flat 
screens.