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From: Leon@lfheller.demon.co.uk (Leon Heller)
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Subject: Re: The Human Brain.
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In article <3kshh3$s1s@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@cs.niu.edu "Neil Rickert" writes:

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> Getting back to the brain -- if the brain consists of many similar
> units, connected in a coherent arrangement, then it might be able to
> understand itself.  If, on the other hand, it is an ad hoc spaghetti
> code construction, with lots of special detail involved, it might be
> that the brain cannot understand itself.  The brain looks like
> spaghetti, but one cannot conclude from appearances that it really
> consists of spaghetti code.

When I was studying psychology, we discussed the implications of Goedel's
work. It can be argued that one is unable to understand one's *own* brain,
but this does not preclude understanding someone else's!

Leon
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