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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Subject: Re: Deep Blue power compared to Brain power
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David@longley.demon.co.uk (David Longley) wrote:
>In article <33CB8605.29DB97C@mcs.com> drt@mcs.com "Don Tveter" writes:
>> 
>> I'll make my statement even shorter and more concise:  symbol
>> processing methods failed to scale up and I don't see anything
>> in NN models that will allow them to scale up either (so far).
>> 
>And I'll make mine shorter still - Scaling UP may not be the  way 
>to  create bigger systems - that's why I referred you  to  either 
>Minsky's "Society of Mind" or my own "Fragments of Behaviour: The 
>Extensional Stance" (cf. www below).

'Scaling down' doesn't help either. The combination of many small parts has 
the same scaling problem as one big part. 

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Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
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