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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
- Subject: Re: The Humongous Look-up Table revisited.
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 18:02:59 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- References: <1992Dec22.211814.5623@u.washington.edu> <erwin.725080496@trwacs>
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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.
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- Not even spacetime is continuous, much less the things residing in it.
- It only looks continuous because your powers of resolution are too limited
- to see the planck-scale granularity underlying the supposed continuum.
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