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From: dror@infmx.UUCP (Dror Matalon)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: NN Question (how can a few neurons mimic the brain?)
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Date: 6 Mar 89 18:03:47 GMT
References: <32125@gt-cmmsr.GATECH.EDU> <11945@swan.ulowell.edu>
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In article <11945@swan.ulowell.edu> sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes:
>  I find that there are some people who are under the impression
>that by linking together many specialized programs(a vision 
>processor, a language processor,...), they will be able to create 
>something akin to the human mind. I do not subscribe to this
>theory because the human brain is pretty much uniform. This 
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Not true.

>fact becomes dramatically obvious in the cases of people who have
>had accidents resulting in the damage of sections of the brain.
>If the damaged section performed a specialized function, then
>for awhile, the person will not be able to perform that action.
>After some time, the rest of the brain is able to assimilate
>the functions performed by the damaged section and the person
>is able to function normally again. 
>

	While it is true that the basic processors (neurons) function pretty 
much the same way through the brain there are specialized areas.
When one of the speach areas -- Broca's, Wernicke's -- is destroyed in an adult 
brain the person's speach is maimed for life.
	

	Dror


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