Re: Not about embedded POVs

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> From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
>
> > it fits less well with the idea
> > of mechanistic processing.
>
> Bad choice of phrase - I mean that (for example) when catching a cricket
> ball you _do not_ do the maths, you just match to your previous
> experiences of catching (and the eidos of it you have refined over the
> years - in effect a fully functional toy/model of the behaviour, built
> by tuning though, not metrication).

I take it you mean that brains don't do algorithms. It's a reasonable supposition, since algirithms were invented in the early 20th century, and brains have been around a little longer.

Ted

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