<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In having no basic skills, I argue that in the time of covent based education this was with illness, family poverty and when one left at 14 plus. In receiving awards and being a post graduate in technical disciplines with Masters due and MA for my 57th birthday I feel that I enable those rule based thinkers. In doing code in connectionist binary modelling in neuropsychology I do not have perfect maths and English as have agrammatism due to brain injury. It is basic skills that are used for backpackers who have degrees and some never use the degree or the basic skills when working in tourism unskilled industries. Indeed many rich and famous people had no formal schooling to find their own specialism.<BR>
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Is it then the mantra that if you can write an essay without spell checker and can use mathematical equations that you can see a pattern in science as Watson and Crick did with someone elses help, can see that indigenous people are not getting sick when using a certain root, can see that the office has behavioural conflicting personalities etc.<BR>
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To see or use thought in a non guided rule system way learning has to be lifelong and disputable. Orators are well versed actors, where as independant thinkers chose hypotheses that challenge the rule based system by short hand thinking to the minute factor that is outside the rule based. Hence why we now use maggots when really ancient medicine told us that it worked. The rules of science manipulated to patterns of behaviour show that abhorance of these creatures and the simple equation.<BR>
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McLeod et al, 2000 connectionist modelling with tlearn from Open Source, Cambridge disk supplied. Neural networks simulated programming.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#8000ff" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="CloisterBlack BT" LANG="0"><I>Paula 'humanity is intelligent thinking' beyond self'</I></FONT></HTML>