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From: DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Jon J Thaler)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: CoOntinuous vs discrete
Message-ID: <91082.223501DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 91 06:35:01 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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One thing that has always bothered me about the comparison between
computers and brains is that (most) computers are finite state machines,
while it is not obvious to me that brains are.  It is well known that
mathematical modelling of continuous systems on disctrete lattices
will miss some classes of solutions entirely, so I have trouble following
the arguments based on analogies between computers and brains.  Can someone
out there shed some light on this for me?