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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Flexibility of nervous systems
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Date: 16 Mar 89 18:00:56 GMT
References: <2400@scolex.sco.COM> <1595@astroatc.UUCP> <53646@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
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In article <53646@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> sheinberg-david@CS.YALE.EDU (David Sheinberg) writes:
>
>The article you're referring to is called "Experimentally Induced Visual
>Projections in Auditory Thalamus and Cortex" by Mriganka Sur, et al.  It's
>published in the December 9, 1988 _Science_ (vol 242) pp. 1437-1441.  It
>certainly raises some fascinating philosophical questions.

Only if you have some unfounded, preconceived notion of the purpose of
the things, such as this one, for which the first understanding is now
being discovered.

I.e., the scientific questions it raises are much more fascinating
than the philosophical questions it renders moot.

				--Blair