Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!schraudo From: schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: AI - the real problem Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 17:00:23 GMT References: <1485@ucl-cs.uucp> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 23 G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes: >Any, we still have a lot redundancy left to soak up, cf Sacks work. I think such claims of redundancy in the brain -- ranging from lesion studies down to the infamous "you only use 10%" ads -- are premature; we simply don't know enough about brain function to make such a deter- mination. Just because a person can still function normally with a lesion of A doesn't mean that A was redundant: the lesion may have pro- duced a defect that escaped our tests, or the function of A has been taken over by B, slightly compromising the function of B in the process, or... Even if the redundancy is there, it may be vital (as far as evolution is concerned) to compensate for the detrimental effects of concussions, micro- lesions, toxic substances, ageing, and the like. We simply don't know how much slack there is for increasing brain functionality without in- creasing brain size. -- Nicol N. Schraudolph, CSE Dept. | "I don't know about your dreams, but mine Univ. of California, San Diego | are sort of hackney: same thing night after La Jolla, CA 92093-0114, U.S.A. | night, just this repetitive. And the color nici%cs@ucsd.{edu,bitnet,uucp} | is really bad..." - Laurie Anderson.