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From: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Limits of AI
Summary: A shorter Edelman exists
Keywords: Intelligence, Neural Darwinism
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Date: 9 Nov 88 10:13:24 GMT
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In article <6655@venera.isi.edu> smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) writes:
>Readers interested is a more technical substantiation of Sagan's arguments
>should probably refer to the recent work of Gerald Edelman, published most
>extensively in his book NEURAL DARWINISM.  

A summary written by Edelman with the same title can be found in the book:

Title:   How We Know
Editor:  Michael Shafto
Length:  29 pages, including bibliography
Imprint: Harper & Row, New York, 1985

BF311.N62

ISBN 0-06-250777-X

Book also includes five other pieces of interest researching the brain,
memory, and thinking machines.  All are from the 'Nobel Conference XX'

I hope you find this useful.

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'I have no brain, and I must think...' - An Omynous
'If I don't think, AM I' - Another Omynous