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From: foetus@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71030000)
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Subject: Re: The Bandwidth of the Brain
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Date: 22 Dec 90 10:05:41 GMT
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The brain is not a computer.  It is, however, the most complex and
little understood thing that so many (but not all :-)) people have in 
common.  In this respect, it is like a computer.
But:
Back in the days when a telephone switchboard (or even Thaddius Cahills 
fabled Tellharmonium) was the most complicated, technologically
advanced task machine, people compared that to a brain.
Fact is, we've all just been fooling ourselves.
Anyboby get what I'm saying?

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