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>From: bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: brains and information processing
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Date: 6 May 92 20:59:23 GMT
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In article <1992May5.201703.17963@psych.toronto.edu> 
christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>...
>Nothing like a little whole-hearted question-begging to get things off on the 
>right foot, eh? Brains are no more *essentially* information processing
>devices than weather systems are. If you define them as such from the outset,
>it is little wonder you end up with the conclusion you had assumed. 
>Nice try. :-)

  All right.  I am willing to be enlightened.  Brains must have a
function or they would not exist.  How would you describe that
function?

	-- Bill


