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Article 2349 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: thomas@ckgp.UUCP (Michael Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Are we scaled-up slug-brains or not? (was "In the news...")
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Date: 21 Dec 91 17:13:49 GMT
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In article <45307@mimsy.umd.edu>, harwood@umiacs.umd.edu (David Harwood) writes:
> Now old business:
> In article <709@ckgp.UUCP> thomas@ckgp.UUCP (Michael Thomas) writes:
> >This does not agree with me... (a piece of uncooked info, perhaps)
> >Yes it is true, that there are several hundred different
> >"classifications" of neurons. Another point was overlooked though,
> >neurons are like snowflakes, no two are alike! None of mine match up
> >with any other of mine or anyone elses...
> (...)
> >I would be intrested in hearing how others feel about how this will
> >improve/effect research focused towards emulating MINDS and not brains?
> >
> >NOTE: I tried not to direct this towards Marvin Minsky since he could
> >      have been miss-quoted.
> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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>       I repeated all that the Washington Post quoted of Minsky, the
> godfather of Perceptrons. By the way, I've read that Minsky knows far more
> about neurology than many people would suspect. (This is not to endorse
> all his views on AI or neural nets.)

  I just want to say that my intent was not to belittle Minsky. I am
also under the impression that Minsky has a wealth of knowledge in the
area of neurology. After reading the quote in the Washington Post, I was
however questioning if he used any of that wealth of knowledge to
produce an sufficient response? This is not meant in a "mean" way, I am
sure they called Minsky and said, "What do you feel about this?" and it was
proabaly like 1:00am and he just raddled something off to humor them.
(By now he is probably tired of everyone bugging him every time a small
advancement is produced in the field of AI or any tangents in the field...)

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