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From: andrew@nsc.nsc.com (andrew)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: NN Question
Summary: trivial and deep levels
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Date: 3 Mar 89 03:16:02 GMT
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Your question is both specious and deep, simultaneously! You might, in the
former case, ask what exactly is contributed to a lead guitar solo by the
wincing of the soloist.. you'd be quite happy to hear the record (this goes
for cello, violin, etc of course!) and implies that a robot might get the
final resultant nuances without the contributions of the total emotional
structure of the performer. I personally find the excruciating expressions
of rock groups hilarious, supporting the "specious" view!
Conversely, you can look at this as Carver Mead's plenary speech at the
IEEE Conference did - the tip of an iceberg of an immense cognitive system.
That's why, to avoid the "AI trap", it's maybe best to start bottom-up,
rather than the heretofore conventional psychological/serial-symbolic
approach of top-down (macroscopic) behavioural analysis. 
I guess a lot of this has to do with how interested you are with the
actual dynamics of learning. Once learned, things get quite trivial.

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