Gary Forbis <GaryForbis at email.msn.com> wrote:
> "Harry Erwin" <herwin at gmu.edu> wrote in message
news:1eeoeeq.1l5du7o1hdv8vwN%herwin at gmu.edu...
> > I'm beginning to suspect a primary function of the neocortex is the
> > maintenance of a non-symbolic, dynamic model of the environment. The
> > evidence seems fairly strong that bats live mostly in such a model
> > (Griffin, 1958), and the difficulty we have training bats to use
> > symbolic representations (yes/no tokens) in communicating with us,
> > suggests that their internal model is non-symbolic, possibly like the
> > analog models used in some contexts like wind tunnels and floatation
> > tanks.
>> That's an interesting conjecture.
>> Even humans have a hard time describing their own performances.
> Is it generally held that analog models are non-symbolic?
Yes, I believe so.
--
Harry Erwin, PhD, <mailto:herwin at gmu.edu>,Computational Neuroscientist
(modeling bat behavior), Senior SW Analyst and Security Engineer, and
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, GMU. Looking--CV available at:
<http://mason.gmu.edu/~herwin/CV.htm>
