Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jk3k+ From: jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Paradigm Shift Response (sort of) Message-ID: <4YtBzCS00V4GA0XRNK@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 13 Aug 89 02:41:18 GMT References: <16946@ut-emx.UUCP> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <16946@ut-emx.UUCP> In article <16946@ut-emx.UUCP> worden@ut-emx.UUCP (worden) writes: >As I understand it, our sensory and motor systems are highly >structured, from the peripheral nerves to at least several >cortical layer depths. Beyond that, through the association >areas and into the deeper structures of the limbic system, >no one really knows what the h--l is going on. Not yet at least. >Apparent randomness, at least, does seem to coexist with >structure inside our skulls! If you looked at a microprocessor chip you might say the same thing. I don't think biological neural nets are as structured as silicon chips, or we might be looking for `grandmother cells'. But i don't think they're completely random either. It's up to NN people and neurobiologists to figure out which structures are useful.