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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Chomsky on Consciousness and Dennett
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In article <3qci8l$jha@hecate.umd.edu>, James Unger <jmu@hamlet.umd.edu> wrote:
..........
>at which one claims to be able to simulate intelligence.  As
>far as I can tell, no one has ever denied the possibility of
>biological modelling:  a machine that embodied the exact structure
>and real-time operations of a brain, neuron by neuron, would
>presumably be the functional equivalent of that brain.  The
>question is precisely whether parts of such a biological
>simulation could be discarded without destroying the
>functional equivalence.  Why anyone would presume that one
>could toss out everything but formalized rules and still have
>something remotely like a real brain is beyond my
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>understanding.  (Of course, I can't fathom why Pinker and
 
It would help to understand this lack of understanding if you made quite
clear what you mean by a "real brain". Say, a robot reproduces behavior of
an owner of biological brain. What does it's "brain" have to have for you to
accept that it is a "real brain"?

>Chomsky think they can excise language from culture
>either!  Guess it's something in the Cambridge air.)
>
>J. Marshall Unger
>University of Maryland


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