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>From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
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Subject: Re: From neurons to computation: how?
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Date: 14 Dec 91 14:14:27 GMT
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In article <60059@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:

>Consider immunology.  In many ways, it's a miniature version of the
>problem of mind.  The immune system involves learning and pattern
>recognition, and a knowledge of self.
>
I'm sure you know that neural net theory has been applied to immunology.

>
>Really?  Then what is all that brain EEG going on for?  It is not noise.
>EEG activity can be correlated with thought.  Correlating it with neurons
>is not easy.
>
Remember that the EEG is taken from outside the skull and is a "far-field"
potential sum of neuronal activity in the brain.  Electrocorticography
(a la Penfield) correlates a heck of a lot better.

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