GRGR(10) Control

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Sat Feb 15 15:34:00 CST 1997



> From: stencil <stencil at bcn.net> (replying to Andrew D.)

> > Ditto for
> >computers, the `thinking machines' the acme of whose learning
> >capabilities includes the stupidities of `smart' warfare.

(snip)

> In any event, artificial cognition is the betrothed of
> physiology, not of physics.  Only as we learn what the brain does,
> will that behavior be synthesized - er, mimicked.

Sorry if context is important to this part of stencil's answer,  but
I have to ask what about the many cognitive scientists who say
intelligence and consciousness are (somehow) just logical,
cause-and-effect relationships? The so-called functional approach.

Neither physics nor biology.

Not saying I agree with them.

			P.




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