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>From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: Are we scaled-up slug-brains or not? (was "In the news...")
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In article <45307@mimsy.umd.edu> harwood@umiacs.umd.edu (David Harwood) writes:
>If 7 people tell me (by email) they seriously want me to investigate
>this issue: Are we slug-brains or are we not? Then I will make a report
>to this newsgroup, with lengthy documentation of all books and journal

    I doubt that anyone knows.  However, I will make the important point that
even if the human brain is not a scaled-up slug brain, that being able to
duplicate a slug brain will still be a useful thing.  While a slug brain would
not be able to play adequate chess, it might be quite useful for controlling
a lawnmower.  We must give the lower organisms credit for some fairly complex
sensory ability in their own right.
--scott


