Neuro has spewed a lot of stuff about the process of abstraction/conceptualization in the brain. That is good but it leaves open the question of what the...
Short response(uneducated) Brain works just like a computer.. input process storage output so input would be senses.. process is always happening as if there...
... No - computer tries to work like the Brain - get the order right... ... You can abstract all of this to what the MIND deals with and that is stimulus,...
nice thoughts. Hopefully Ill understand where thermodynamics fit in after I read the links. I guess I see there as a one dimension and you see things as two...
This is a test, I will only do it again if asked. Chris Prosperity through punishment Nature is reporting that cooperation can flourish if the public-spirited...
McKinstry
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Jan 10, 2002 11:34 am
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Altruism is an age-old smoke screen for tyranny. It is freedom that works, not tyranny and punishment. Darryl McKinstry <mckinst@...> wrote: This is a...
In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions involved in human...
McKinstry
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Jan 23, 2002 10:53 am
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I have been thinking about Neuro's abstraction system... It may be correct for working with paterns or abstractions of things but it doesn't accomplish the...
this may seem odd but has anyone tried to set up a virtual replica of the human organism and applied input to the structure ... it gets mental but virtual...
I will reply to this on-list, then the offer (as I read it) off-list... ... You seem to be falling into a common misconception about what "english" is. This...
... What Super computer? How big is it? ... In VB!!! =P ... Try information abstraction and analysis... ... Yep. ... Look: Writing stupid calculator programs...
so is setting up a solid physical basis out of question or are you trying to make it interpret our phyiscal universe. Ok if this is a waste of the groups time...
"Why should we care about "humans intelligents". What counts is "machine intelligents", " because our perception of machine intellegence is dependent upon...
Suppose, for a moment, that intelligence were to be generic. That is, independent of its physical modality. There would be virtually no difference between...
isn't that the way it is? phyiscallity determining capacity? physical conditions leading to psychological nescities all stemming from the core of survival in ...
humans arn't capable of true illogical thought since we are part of a logical existance(as far as I know). True illogic is not percievable on a level of human...
Bill, Logic is merely a sort of Tinker Toy model of thought. It has little to do with the processes of thought itself. All critters on this little planet are...
Bill: I suspect that a high order of intelligence is possible over a fairly broad spectrum of physical instrumentalities. Since consciousness tends to impose...
sure we do learn from one another all comming from differnet places but with a common goal. just wish more people wouuld relize it and figure out billions of...
I still dont understand how logical thought is posible.. deja vu. How is anything based on the illogic? Illogic is not comprehensible. Everything down to the...
... 'logic' (or its roots) are identifiable in the sensory systems, in particular in the recruitment and abstraction of processes in the visual system. Jung...
Humour, laughter and surrealism hardly have thier roots in logic or order, but certainly form part of a human consciousness (and possibly other ...
Steve Lewis
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Mar 6, 2002 12:26 am
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William: Logic is only a conceptual model of thought. There is an infinity of alternatives to logic. We learn to be human by trying everything else first....
Interesting statement, that thier are an infinity of alternitives to logic, this of course requires proof, and I am curious why you would think this. Logic is...
It shall be investegated as to whether or not thier exists an alternitive to logic, or a simpler set upon which logic is based. This is done with the goal of...
