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From: stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens)
Subject: Re: Thought Question
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In <3eg1c1$oli@agate.berkeley.edu> <jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> writes:
>stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens) wrote:

>> Again, as soon as you have the computer interacting with an environment
>> which contributes a steady steam of changing input information, it's speed
>> matters as well.

>Well, if you think it's redundant to say, "do this computation at
>this speed", then this particular objection of mine does not hold.
>I was using the idea of a computation as being a task that can
>be carried out at different speeds.  Whereas what the brain does
>cannot be done at different speeds.

My point was merely that computation is not a task that can be carried
out at different speeds if its input is time dependent.  What the
brain does could be done at different speeds (assuming its function is
otherwise unchanged) if its input was at a correlated speed.

Greg Stevens

stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu

