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From: jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman)
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Subject: Re: Connectionism, a paradigm shift?
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Date: 8 Aug 89 03:15:17 GMT
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In article <599@berlioz.nsc.com> andrew@berlioz (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head ) writes:

> When PROLOG executes a branch instruction in the ALU of the SPARC chip,
> where is the resemblance to the brain?

It depends on the rest of the SPARC system's state.

If you have a formal description of a data structure and an
algorithm, then you have a program.  Using a technique
called "programming" one may map these descriptions on to
different kinds of computer systems.  The Neural-Net of the
brain is one kind of system, and a SPARC system is somthing
else entirely.  The only reason that they can't be executing
the same program is that the I/O systems are very different.

:James
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:James P. Salsman (jps@CAT.CMU.EDU)