David Brown wrote:
I would say that the human brain is more general purpose than any computer that we've ever built.
I might agree. Except that its "general purpose" is actually "pattern matching for survival".
Computers we make have to be laboriously programmed.
Um, excuse me? Literacy and education don't come for free, you know.
The brain learns on its own. It can't be directly programmed, and I don't think we're even close to understanding how it works. But, it can be indirectly be programmed. Words like "study", and "practice" come to mind.
And it has some absolutely spectacular failure modes: superstition, schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, etc.
And it has almost no debugging facilities. -a -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
