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From: dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek)
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Subject: Re: Alternate Computer Architectures (Naive Questions)
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 12:47:00 EST
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Summary: 

In answer to the question of whether people have attempted to simulate
the methodology of the human brain (and the particular example of
what happens while typing a line of text) I thought I'd mention that both
physiologists, psychologists and computer scientists are attempting to
build models of some aspects of the brain.  The way the question was
posed seemed to imply this was a relatively easy problem.  As far as
I can tell, it is extremely difficult and poorly understood.
  In particular, a lot of effort has gone into trying to guess just what
the heck the biological visual system is doing in the hope of constructing
(at least) a simple computer vision system.  As yet, a lot of work remains
to be done.