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From: jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.psychology,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Fluid vs. Crystallized Intelligence
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Date: 22 Nov 90 01:29:54 GMT
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From article <36099@cup.portal.com>,
by mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson):
>> why do you persist in claiming that neurons have ideas?
> ...I think that the
> different types of cells in the cerebral cortex may serve specialized
> functions in the complexes of cells which are the atoms of intelligence.

Do you believe that if we put enough books in the library it
will start having ideas too?

Having lots of things of one sort doesn't automatically turn
it into a thing of another sort.

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com