Regarding mathematics students just using matching... Yes, I think that most students want to just get a passing grade, and then do something else with their lives. As my wife said, the day after she retired, "See, I never used cosine".
There is another theme emerging here, which is that if all a mathematician needs to do is follow PRESS-like rules, then maybe if we add to the rules we could say that all one needs to be "intelligent" is to follow (a larger set of) PRESS-like rules. And then what does it mean to be "conscious" other than to follow (an even larger set of) PRESS-like rules. Now we have opened up a wonderful can of worms, Check out the alleged conflict between computing / cognitive science and philosophers like John Searle. (my view: Searle entirely misconstrues what computer scientists are trying to do; he has built his career on this. Nevertheless fun to read and pick at his arguments. I don't know what the PRESS people think about him, actually.) RJF > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
