GRGR(10) Control

[stencil]

 Paul Mackin <mackin at allware.com> cuts to the core:

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>> From: stencil <stencil at bcn.net> (replying to Andrew D.)
>> .... Only as we learn what the brain does,
>> will that behavior be synthesized - er, mimicked.
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>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.
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>Not saying I agree with them.
>
The point exactly:  the returns are not all in and will not be for a
long time to come.  That was the trigger for the (belligerent, bad
week, - apologies, Andrew) response to "six-of-the-best for naughty
technology."  Here, Pynchon's work, especially GR, is valued precisely
because of its control, the fitness of the images and sounds, and its
deployment of language.  Its value as a Field Guide to Our Problems
and Their Solutions - other than as a datapoint, the 1973 cut - fades
rapidly.  Left behind is the afterglow, the nimbus of loathing for any
enterprise that requires the efforts of more than thee and me - and
we're not too sure of thee.