SEARCH ENGINES - is it, or are they ? Fundamental to most of intelligent machines , including the human being, animals, insects, viruses, cells ?

[Strange]

There seems to be a need to make analogies for life functions based on the technology of the time: the stomach is a furnace; the human body works by clockwork; the heart is like a steam engine [OK, I don't know if anyone really said that]; the brain is like a computer; and now hunting is like a search engine.

 

I don't see much value in any of these.

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

There seems to be a need to make analogies for life functions based on the technology of the time: the stomach is a furnace; the human body works by clockwork; the heart is like a steam engine [OK, I don't know if anyone really said that]; the brain is like a computer; and now hunting is like a search engine.

 

I don't see much value in any of these.

Well if life ( animal and human ) have found it benificial to ' be' and exist , like they do . Namely to come up with desires, then go seeking them . Rather than just sit there , interacting in specific ways .( as matter ) . Then search they must to find their aspiration .

 

Today millions , billions of humans are using the World Wide Web to find their aspirations . By the extra ordinary search engine that is embedded in the system .

 

A useful cross illustration, is that of a recent descovered , concerning what we have happening in our ( 2 halves of brain) .

It would appear we take in more information than we can immediately handle , on a day to day basis . As we go to sleep a mechanism , whether it could be called a search engine ?..? Both halves of the brain communicate via the narrow channel , between the halves. Overnight they solve many left over enquiries. In the morning you wake up with some answers. Possibly due to your internal search engine .

 

Mike

[swansont]

If you won't accept the "no" answers, you really need to present something more substantive as a rebuttal. Looking for things can be done in many ways. They are not all like internet search engines.

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Moderator Note

 

Mike Smith Cosmos

 

I am going to insist you stick to your own self-appointed script on this one; you made certain claims in the OP and the thread will be a discussion of those points and nothing more. I will not allow it to turn into another meaning-lite meandering blog.

 

Re-read your OP, address the fact that members have contradicted your assertions (sometimes with counter-examples - other times more baldly), and build a focused argument. Repetition, deviation, and blather will result in the thread being locked.

 

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

As requested :-

 

Original heading :-

 

SEARCH ENGINES - is it, or are they ? Fundamental to most of intelligent machines , including the human being, animals, insects, viruses, cells ?

 

Supportive to OP: -

 

The principle of SOMETHING that ' Sifts' information so as to provide a solution; ' identifies ' a specific piece of knowledge; or 'filters out ' a possible required action. This appears to be fundamental to a lot of modern computer or I- pad technology.

 

Does this mean , ' that they are ', also essential to ' Life Itself ' ?

 

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Claims :-

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.. That there is a question, that there may be in existence , (?) , mechanisms ( described as search engines ) in both computer systems ( small and massive ) as well as in animals of many sizes ( small and large ) and all sane human organisms. This is submitted as a Question to encourage discussion around the subject !

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Building a focused argument :-

 

: I am bringing a focused argument , based as by my usual method , a mixture of engineering experience , observation , reading technical literature, thinking the subject through over a long period of time .

Then moved share and to make public my current beliefs on the matter , as best as I am able .

 

Argument .

I have witnessed and taken part in the computer revolution , from work on PERT ( progress .evaluation, review , technique) as a management tool for large projects on computers Room sized. I have spent 8 years in university studying around electronics to degree level ( BHons satellite communication ) . I have taken part in design and manufacture of interface devices for home computers and Personal Computers ( PC,s) and their link across country by BT telephone lines. I was exposed to the principle of ' search engines ' as the link up of home computers pc's moved from BT prestel to front end Information Providers who housed huge banks of computers and memory banks . As the use of this World Wide Web grew and grew . I remained very much at the Personal Computer end . I saw the services mature as information providers worked along side the hardware . The rest is history , and we work , all of us , utilising the services of the large providers in their satisfying OUR requirement for information contained world wide across a giant network of information . Some of this information MAY exist on individual web sites that many of us have set up . Right through to the massive sites like CERN , TO WHOLESALERS of Products.

 

This is out there , but where is my requirement lodged, either as information , instructions , product , or whatever.

 

This is where the major IT companies who supply the SEARCH , will search and find your REQUIREMENT . ( then you can have your required information , service, product , etc. supplied) .

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:I have noticed an amazing similarity , between the above described development . To aspect of behaviour

Amongst the computer based system above , and the way human beings have ordered their lives over the last few Centuaries . Today's society is surely satisfying our enquiries , mental stimulation , and bodily desires , to a reasonably large and significant amount.

 

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This is the subject , with claims , and structured argument that I am submitting . That can if necessary be expanded to include , bigger more complex supplies, as well as any possible application to lower order life , animal etc ?

 

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Mike

Edited December 24, 2016 by Mike Smith Cosmos

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Moderator Note

Mike, your focussed argument is just more waffle. We're not going to tolerate another 20 page thread of complete nonsense on your part, so I'm closing this pending review.