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Article 5079 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: smoliar@hilbert.iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Bright Air, Brilliant Fire
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Date: 13 Apr 92 07:54:48 GMT
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In article <1992Apr9.140908.29033@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl
McCullough) writes:
>
>Edelman discusses in one chapter, and in an appendix, some of the
>issues from this newsgroup. I looked forward to his contributions to
>the AI debate because he is someone who actually knows a lot about how
>the brain really works. Unfortunately, he doesn't bring any special
>insight into his discussion of AI, and merely repeats Searle's
>arguments about semantics and syntax. He also pooh-pooh's the notion
>(due to the old Putnam) that the brain can be viewed as a Turing
>machine, saying that there is nothing in the brain that corresponds to
>a Turing machine tape.
>
This sounds as if Edelman is simply repeating the same material he presented in
THE REMEMBERED PRESENT.  (Of course, THE REMEMBERED PRESENT includes a rather
substantial review of the material he presented in NEURAL DARWINISM.)  Is there
any NEW material in this "new" book?
-- 
Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511
Internet:  smoliar@iss.nus.sg


