Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!tdatirv!sarima From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Flocking behaviour, collective systems, reasoning Message-ID: <56@tdatirv.UUCP> Date: 9 Nov 90 19:37:25 GMT References: <1990Nov2.124853.22806@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1990Nov5.210103.8022@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> <1990Nov7.140905.1855@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine Lines: 11 In article greenba@gambia.crd.ge.com (ben a green) writes: >I think it was (and still is): If a behaviour can be explained >without a mental model, then why bother with a mental model? Because there are other data to be explained beyond mere behavior. For instance, we have considerable data on the activity of neurons within the brain. When this sort of info is taken into account, some sort of internal modelling is required. -- --------------- uunet!tdatirv!sarima (Stanley Friesen)