Analog vs Digital (was Re: Is Scheme/Lisp somehow more "fundamental" than other languages?)

[Darren New]

Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
>> I would say that the human brain is more general purpose than any 
>> computer
>> that we've ever built.
> 
> I might agree.  Except that its "general purpose" is actually "pattern 
> matching for survival".

I don't know of any other computational device that creates other 
computational devices without outside assistance. That seems like a 
pretty powerful device to me.

> And it has some absolutely spectacular failure modes: superstition, 
> schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, etc.
> 
> And it has almost no debugging facilities.

Except science. But that's another discussion. ;-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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