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With risk of spoiling the Haiku, could someone explain this in more detail?

What is Sussman suggesting that Minsky do instead: wire the neural net in a fixed way instead of randomly? What does that have to do with the difference between viewing the room with your eyes open vs. closed?

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The koan is commonly accompanied by the following:

"What I actually said was, 'If you wire it randomly, it will still have preconceptions of how to play. But you just won't know what those preconceptions are.'" -- Marvin Minsky

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