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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (Gordon E. Banks)
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Subject: Re: What AI is exactly.
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Date: 23 Sep 90 20:08:47 GMT
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In article <3893@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus) writes:
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>Neurons do, but what about cognitive structures?  No doubt we have different
>and more powerful neurally computational (call it mid-level cognition)
>abilities, probably due to some of the specialized neurons in the 
>cerbral cortex (I hope I'm naming it correctly - I aint no biologist!).

No.  There are no types of neurons found in humans that aren't
found in other animals as well.  It is in the numbers and organization
of the neurons that we need to look for the reasons for our
cognitive superiority, not in the structure of the neurons.