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Article 2139 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
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Subject: Re: Scaled up slug brains
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Date: 15 Dec 91 15:58:23 GMT
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In article <40659@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:

>No argument here. Clearly we are all built of cells, we share many
>similarities and research on these simpler animals is a logical first
>step towards understanding more complex ones. Note, however that Gordon
>Banks makes a much stronger claim. Essentially Banks is arguing that 
>the difference between slug nervous systems and human brains is just a
>matter of scale. There is no evidence to support this claim other than the

Those are your words not mine.  It would depend on what you mean by
scale.  If scale includes complexity of the organization, I would
agree (the I beam and the gear box are differently organized steel).
But if you just mean size and numbers, I do not agree.






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