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>From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Definition of Understanding
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 18:49:50 GMT

In article <Mdizvrm00WBME7ja4i@andrew.cmu.edu> fb0m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Franklin Boyle) writes:
......
>Also, one of my earlier points was that pattern recognition does not 
>necessarily mean the physical process of structure fitting -- in digital
>computers, however, it does.
> 
>In digital computers, how do you recognize patterns if you physically don't 
>couple one structure to another?  How is the pattern causal in the system 
>*as that pattern*?
>
Are you suggesting that the brain (or mind if you prefer) recognizes patterns
without comparing them to something?? Can you enlighten me what you have in
mind?

>-Frank


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