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From: jones@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (JONES, THOMAS)
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Subject: Learning
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Date: 12 Dec 90 06:06:21 GMT
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Steve Smoliar complains about the tendency to use the word "learning" to
refer to a hodgepodge of unrelated mechanisms.  Quite so, Steve; there is
no such *one* thing as learning.  Instead, the term seems to be a blanket
one which covers several dozen (or several hundred) mechanisms for coding
a behavior change based on experience. It is not obvious that these
mechanisms are particularly related to one another.

Thomas L. Jones     jones@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov

All opinions my own.