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>From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: syntax and semantics
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Date: 5 May 92 12:54:45 GMT
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sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
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>|We can't equate neurons
>|to microprocessors, since we don't know yet how a neuron works.
>
>WRONG me bucko!   We *do* know, in large part, how a neuron works.

I read once that, although we know a lot about single neurons, we are
quite ignorant of how two neurons connect.  It was asserted that the
Golgi stain method is our only means of viewing cells, and that it only
affects, randomly, one cell in a thousand.  Thus, we've never seen two
neurons next to each other, so we don't really know how they interact.

Was this written before the electron microscope?  Please excuse my
ignorance of biology...
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