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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
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Subject: Edelman
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Date: 27 Feb 90 18:09:04 GMT
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In article <12038@venera.isi.edu> smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) writes:
|  One of the major punch lines of Gerald Edelman's NEURAL
|DARWINISM is that algorithms based on selection from a population may
|allow us to deal with the first half of this question--category formation.

I suspect that this constitutes a "punch line" only for those
unaware of the work of John Holland.

|Supposedly, he is taken on the assignment and manipulation of labels (which
|brings us into the realm of symbols) in his new book, THE REMEMBERED SELF;

See the chapter on the "broadcast language" in Holland's 1975 book.

-David West         dhw@iti.org