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From: lambert@mcvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Taking AI models and applying them to biology...
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Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 19:03:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 13 19:03:16 1987
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Reply-To: lambert@cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <836@pixar.UUCP> davel@pixar.UUCP (David Longerbeam) writes:

> In article <622@unicus.UUCP>, craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley) writes:
|
| > This description of the human memory system, though cloaked in vaguer terms,
| > corresponds more or less one-to-one with the traditional computer
| > architecture we all know and love.  To wit:
| 
|   [description deleted]
| 
| > At least this far, this theory appears to owe a lot to computer science.
| > Granted, there is lots of empirical evidence in favour, but we all know
| > how a little evidence can go far too far towards developing an analogy.
| 
| One of my philosophy professors in college offered the observation that
| models for the human mind have always seemed to correspond to the most
> advanced form of technology at that given point in history.

I find the connection between models of human memory as developed in
cognitive psychology and existing computer architectures rather tenuous.
The main similarity appears to be that several levels of memory can be
discerned, but the suggested analogy in function is a bit far-fetched.

It is perhaps worth pointing out that much of the current models in
cognitive psychology can already be found in the pioneering work of Otto
Selz (Muenchen, 1881 - Auschwitz, 1943), antedating the computer era.

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Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam; lambert@cwi.nl