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From: blenko@rochester.UUCP (Tom Blenko)
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Subject: Re:  Parallelism & Consciousness
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 14:53:58 EST
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Interesting to see this discussion taking place among people
(apparently) committed to an information-processing model for
intelligence.

I would be satisfied with the discovery of mechanisms that duplicate
the information-processing functions associated with intelligence.

The issue of real-time performance seems to be independent of
functional performance (not from an engineering point of view, of
course; ever tell one of your hardware friends to "just turn up the
clock"?).  The fact that evolutionary processes act on both the
information-processing and performance characteristics of a system may
argue for the (evolutionary) superiority of one mechanism over another;
it does not provide prescriptive information for developing functional
mechanisms, however, which is the task we are currently faced with.

	Tom