X-Message-Number: 8672
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #8657 - #8658
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 22:35:47 -0700 (PDT)

Hi again!

To John Pietrzak: Are we really disagreeing about anything or what? I won't
argue with what you say you said in the past. OK, so you're happy with the
use of neural nets. I would add, though, that when we look at what a neural 
net (or a human brain) actually does, it does not follow a pattern given
by any definition or theory, but instead by a vague sense that one thing is
close enough to another to be called the same. The definition and theories
come later. The most interesting point, I'd say, is that this issue even
occurs in adults: when we meet an experience for the first time, our 
response does not come from any theory or definition.

That is, there are kinds of knowledge which can be included in theories but
do come from theories at all.        

			Best and long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson

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