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From: andrew@berlioz (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head )
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Connectionism, a paradigm shift?
Summary: resemblance and zealotry
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Date: 7 Aug 89 19:59:55 GMT
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In article <705@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>,holt@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Peter Holt) writes:
> ..but lets remember that there may only be a superficial resemblance 
> between the operations of the brain and current neural net technology!

Let's talk about "resemblance", then. 
"Resemblance" is a strong suit for nets in the connectionism
vs. serial symbolic systems debate, and yet you use it for critique!
When PROLOG executes a branch instruction in the ALU of the SPARC chip,
where is the resemblance to the brain?
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