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SciAm article [was Happy Groundhog Day!]

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Fri Feb 11 09:20:53 EST 2005


"kenneth collins" <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote: 

> "kenneth collins" <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message 
> news:CQzMd.1851$Th1.937 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> | [...]
> 
> | "Memory" is extremely-very-much
> | more than "synapses", but this article
> | reduces it all to "synapses".
> |
>  -----snip ---
> Think about it in terms of other sys-
> tems of information-representation.
> 
> 1. The English-Alphabet.
> 
> 26 symbols that can be used to create
> "words", "sentences", "paragraphs",
> "essays", "Letters to the Editor", "News-
> group Posts", "Chapters", "Poems",
> "Song Lyrics", "Books", "Libraries",
> etc., ad infinitum.
> ---------snip -----
> 
> One can't get to "here" invoking
> only "synapses" -- "memory" is
> =much= more than "synapses".
> 
If you can explain how the "Libraries" are more than
'ink on the paper', then you can explain to us how memory is
more than "synapses".

== Chris Glur.






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