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From: bnevin@CCH.BBN.COM (Bruce Nevin)
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Subject: bad enough theory
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Date: Fri, 16-May-86 13:29:08 EDT
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Response to kube%cogsci@berkeley.edu (Paul Kube)

I suppose we ought to tell the authors of that fish story, and the editors
of Nature, that their experimental results have a trivial interpretation
in elementary signal detection theory.  They were all struck by the
`impressive computational ability' of the central nervous system in these
animals.  I'll leave it to you to disabuse them of that.

Your account succeeds precisely because it is not reductionist.
Thanks for clarifying what is going on there.