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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re: "Sensor Evolution"
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Date: 22 Mar 90 17:44:33 GMT
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Summary:

In article <792@berlioz.nsc.com> andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant
Poisoned Electric Head       ) writes:
>
>I'll buy the ribosome model (or is that "paradigm" these days?).
>When I first understood how the "little buggers" work, I did indeed
>"hand it to them". It's much better (no flames please, this is a qualitative
>assessment) than a Turing machine, because there exists this "soup" ("pool"
>for softies) where everything is accessible, if you wait long enough.
>
>My point is this: it is a very beautiful architecture, but no-one builds it;
>not even Neural Nets are *that* parallel.

Part of the problem is that we still really do not have to resources to build
such an architecture.  Neural nets still cannot capture the magnitude of most
nervous systems which we study.  If you want to talk about ribosome soup, you
are dealing with a system of even larger scope . . . perhaps so large as to be
beyond the ability of our imagination to design it.

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