Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:44:05 +0200
From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
Subject: RE: Dawkins' Mutation Test for Replicators
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Derek:
>This is where you are going wrong, Chris.. The fact that our brains are
>nets of neurons does not
>a) imply that they are neural nets in the strict AI sense.
Chris:
I was not talking in a strict AI sense, I was talking in the neurological
sense of neural networks where groups of neurons act as 'one' through
synchronised firing and these groups process 'data' irrespective of the
sensory source.
Derek:
Okay. let's see if this then allows a logical step to the second stage of
your hypothesis.
Chris:
The abstraction follows from the neurologically well determined distinctions
(and for that matter well documented) of 'what' from 'where' processing in
the brain. I can give you chapter and verse on this going back years.
Derek:
That would be interesting. What is the single reference that most
encapsulates this idea?
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