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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language programming" 2009.01.18 (03) [E]

Hi Andrys



Subject: LL-L "Language programming"



Re your observation:

"... along with all the usual subjects..." I rather enjoyed that


Mark:

Let me stick with "...*something* like a computer...", hey, & I'll concede
your other points noted below. Only let me share this with you; a spanner is
something like a hand, in that it can turn something tight or loose. No bets
on which I'd prefer to have the use of. In this spirit, a computer
calculates faster than the human brain can, though it also does. A
computer does not have a problem with impatience or boredom, although the
human brain can to a certain extent push through both these obstacles. To me
the biggest & most important difference is this: It does not have or acquire
initiative to start an operation as the human brain can & does, a sense of
self & curiosity about other things.



As you so rightly say, Andrys:

My tentative assertion that the brain is not like a computer is based on its
idiosyncracy; its holistic inclusivity; its neurological inconsistency and
its ability to generate abstracted principles from multiple sources. It
makes a computer a very much less than perfect brain, rather than the other
way around. Regardless of what we may read in the popular media, no part of
the brain works in isolation, nor is it likely that any part of the brain is
irrevocable assigned to  a specific task. As you can tell, the analogy is a
bugbear!



Mark:

However a stroke or trauma can certainly do limited damage to specific
operations, not others, & or destroy certain memories, not others. So brain
function is not *completely* hologrammic. As for holistic, I hope we agree
that this term applies to the cumulative sophistication that is the product
of a succession of heirarchies of union of initially disparate elements or
operations. ('The whole is greater than the sum of its parts'; J.C. Smuts).



Sorry about yr thesis, hey!



Andrys:

Go the puddle-ducks, I say!

Mark:

Your Mama read you all the right books.


Cheers,

Mark

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