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Article 7602 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: grounding and the entity/environment boundary
Message-ID: <27997@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:44:54 GMT
References: <1992Oct29.165538.137829@Cookie.secapl.com> <1992Oct30.183122.7795@spss.com> <1992Nov10.020502.116627@Cookie.secapl.com>
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In article <1992Nov10.020502.116627@Cookie.secapl.com> frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) writes:

>*Was* evolution capable of producing a brain which could faithfully remember
>every experience presented to it?  Maybe it's still working on it.  Note
>that some people have better memories than others, and that having a better
>memory is in general an advantage.  Evolution is generally a messy process;
>it does not tend to produce perfection.

Some people do have absolutely perfect recall of every detail. One of
Luria's books contains a study of this. These people found their
condition more of a problem than an advantage.

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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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