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Subject: Symbols for Thinking ? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 11:20:00 EDT
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I am new to this round, so I will hack some of my current believes,
which, as I hope, will provoke some response.
They do not intend to be complete, free of contradiction or well grounded.

1) 	Symbols are for communication, not processing.
2)      Conscious thinking is processing ready-made for communication.
3)      Using symbols for low-level processing would vast brain power.
4)	Consciousness is a programmer of the brain and therefor a
	meta-programmer of itself.
5)      Except for very peripheral circuits, no regions of the brain are
	functional sepperatable in terms of "input", "processing" and 
	"output".
6) 	There could be views of neuron activity as patterns with more or 
        less locality, which could mean context-dependancy.
7) 	Then, processing is using patterns of neuron activity as
	keys for associativ memory, one could call them "micro-symbols".

These sentence are using models from computer-sience. I think that might
be helpful in doing the task "programming intelligence".
Besides, there are many different views of human, and we should not see 
them as "true" or "false", rather than as different models which have served
for different tasks. I think none of these old models will fit for the
new tasks, and we have to break them in pieces to use the pieces in
building up our new models. 
...

I'm a German student of computer-sience, but this does not catch up all
my interests in AI related areas. I hope, that here is room not only 
for "professionals".

"We don't need facts, we need visions !"

"If GOD doesn't exist, why don't we program it ?"