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>From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
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Subject: Re: Searle's response to silicon brain?
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Date: 19 Dec 91 15:18:33 GMT
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People, before we get too carried away about the need to simulate
the brain's actual neurochemical function down the the last synapse,
recall that we've had airplanes for many years that fly quite well.
It is only recently that people have made ornithopters (craft
that actually fly like birds do).  If it turns out we can't do
all this without simulating down to the last synapse, we'd do
better to work on designing brains using actual biological units
than silicon.

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