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- From: forbis@stein.u.washington.edu (Gary Forbis)
- Subject: Re: The Humongous Look-up Table revisited.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.210659.18402@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:06:59 GMT
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- In article <erwin.725080496@trwacs> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
- >I must say I'm dubious, doctor. The problem with a look-up table is that
- >it's a digital model. I can test it in its ability to follow a chaotic
- >sequence and identify the level at which it discretizes the world. One
- >thing I'm convinced of is that the human brain maintains an effectively
- >continuous model of the world. Even the output of neurons is FM
- >superimposed on a tagging carrier wave, and so is essentially continuous.
-
- I'm not so sure one can tell the level at which the look-up table discretizes
- the world from any output from a device using it. It may be a limit of the
- sensors rather than the table. There's probably no point in having a table
- more general than the sensor can recognize but that's another story, or maybe
- not.
-
- I think you are saying the Turing Test isn't sufficient to determine
- equivalence to the brain. By its design the Turing test limits behavior
- to descrete units (characters).
-
- I believe motion pictures are really descrete images flashed on a screen at
- a rate too fast for the brain to process as descrete images. I wonder if there
- is a way to detect the limits of the brain separate from the limits of the body
- in which it resides.
-
- >Cheers,
- >--
- >Harry Erwin
- >Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com
-
- --gary forbis@u.washington.edu
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