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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 590.
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:12:49 +0000
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: Re: 17.580 Herbert Simon on common ground
Main comment here is in relation to:
We are importing and exporting from one
>intellectual discipline to another ideas about how a serially organized
>information-processing system like a human being
-- since I'm not sure how "serial" would be defined here. Certainly there
isn't a clock-module singularity in the brain, and we can walk and talk at
the same time without job queueing. The mind is hardly linear.
As far as the rest goes - I think this is related to subsumption
architecture in robotics - with which I'm in agreement - that an
environment can be considered part and parcel of the mind itself. See the
work of Merlin Donald, etc.
- Alan
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