flefever at ix.netcom.com(F. Frank LeFever) wrote:
>>I wouldn't bother looking beyond the diagrams he posts from time to
>time: they are "armchair" or "common sense" notions of how the brain
>"should" be organized that show absolutely no sign of being influenced
>by what we know of actual brain organization on the basis of
>"experiments of nature" (e.g. lesions due to stroke), formal laboratory
>studies, experimental cognitive psychology, etc., etc.
>>Seems to me I saw somebody's comment to the effect that AI systems do
>not HAVE to mimic natural systems and can stand on their own; but
>unless more novel/elegant/interesting as pure creations than these
>simplistic diagrams seem to imply, I see no point in pursuing such
>schemes even as a hobby or game...
You're too charitable. The guy is a crackpot. He recently posted an
"update" to Usenet about... get this... changing the side of the screen
that his program's output text appears on (which is not only totally
irrelevant, but takes any competent programmer about one minute to do).
