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In article <95Dec13.102104est.205322@twist.db.toronto.edu>
golovch@db.toronto.edu (Gene Golovchinsky) writes:

> As far as cognitive science's ability to suggest avenues for modeling
> is concerned, I suspect that they are following rather than leading.
> For a long time now, cognitive science has tried to model (!) the
> brain as a computer. The result is that they are able to predict to a
> certain extent what people can do when they act like computers, but 
> these theories fail when they try to account more complicated (i.e., 
> human) behavior.

That last sentence summed up the conclusions I gleaned from studying AI
for three years. Well put Gene, well put. Can I use it as a .sig ?

