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From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Taking AI models and applying them to biology...
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 09:06:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 09:06:19 1987
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In article <7416@boring.cwi.nl> lambert@cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens) 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.
: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.


    What? You cite facts from the pre-computer age? Shame shame. Don't
  you know that life began with the creation of the computer, as well
  as all the other sciences! With out the computer all other life would
  cease to exist! 

    Its a sad fact that the above holds true for many computer scientist 
  especially those in AI. Many still believe the sacred words AI were
  really coined in the late fifties, and that LISP and Liebnitz have
  no connection. When infact my prof. has given references from a latin
  book dating back to the 13th century, with the latin words for AI.
    The state of the art of computer science is in bad shape when the
  computer wheel must be re-invented every year because th CS people refuse
  to read any book that seemingly has nothing to do with CS or computers. 

    Thanks for the reference. I may be the only one who benefits from
  it, because those CS'ers practicing the art would certainly declare it
  blasphemous and maybe just short of heresy.

  I may be stoned for this.....

  mark
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