Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!hplabs!hpda!hpisoa2!hpitg!ukma!drew@ukma From: drew%ukma@ukma.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: "The Knowledge" Message-ID: <3223@ukma> Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 02:05:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.3223 Posted: Mon Apr 28 02:05:00 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 11-May-86 15:42:24 EDT References: <275@euclid> Lines: 19 In article <275@euclid.warwick.UUCP> gordon@euclid.UUCP (Gordon Joly) writes: >To me, this highlighted the differences in the learning process, >between a machine system and a human, rather well. Humans are not >computers or machine systems of any sort. > >Gordon Joly -- {seismo,decvax,ucbvax}!mcvax!ukc!warwick!gordon How is this? Humans are biological machines which happen to have the ability to learn. Although learning in the general case has not been quantified, this does not mean that it cannot. Humans are simply such weak learners that they cannot remember the map you mention. -- Drew Lawson cbosgd!ukma!drew "Parts is parts." drew@uky.csnet drew@UKMA.BITNET