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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language programming" 2009.01.18
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Hi
Andrys</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Subject:
LL-L "Language programming"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Re your
observation:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">"...
along with all the usual subjects..." I rather enjoyed that</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
Mark:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Let me
stick with "...<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">something</span></strong>
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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">As you so
rightly say, Andrys:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">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
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">completely</span></strong> 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).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Sorry about
yr thesis, hey!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Andrys:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Go the
puddle-ducks, I say!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Your Mama
read you all the right books.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
Cheers,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark<br style="">
</span></p>