tags: emergence

2000

October

2000 Oct 20

The Signal-Virtual Receptor Theory of Cognition

I don't know why it should make a difference to think of communication this way, since after all, I don't particularly know aynthing about the current model [of communication.]

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2008

July

2008 Jul 17

emergent phenomenon

I am more at ease with the direction Hofstadter is taking his argument about how the actual architecture of the brain and the actual molecular arrangements of proteins on neurons do not need to be fully explicated in order to at least think about thought processes. This is the same way how you don't really need to know how a microprocessor actually works in order to program it in assembly.

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