Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > 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.
Har! :-) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
