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From: holt@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Peter Holt)
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Subject: Re: Connectionism, a paradigm shift?
Summary: Brain as existance proof?
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Date: 7 Aug 89 14:46:04 GMT
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I would say that is a fairly zealous statement.

Personally I have not decided which paradigm is better for what when yet,
but lets remember that there may only be a superficial resemblance 
between the operations of the brain and current neural net technology!
A lot more things are happening in the brain (especially chemically 
and at the intraneuron level) than are in neural nets. 
It may even be a coincidence that what some of the functionality 
of neural nets approximates some of the very basic perceptual-cognitive 
functions of the brain. Some of the other functionality of neural nets 
(extracting eigenvalues?) would not seem to match the way 
humans do same things at all.