Brain = Computer? No, according to new study
The theory that the mind works like a computer, in a series of distinct stages, was an important steppingstone in cognitive science, but it has outlived its usefulness, concludes a new Cornell University study. Instead, the mind …
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This is a clever design and will no doubt be extended to produce more specific evidence. But I wonder where he got the stuff about packets and binary symbols. My impression is that his evidence is quite consistent with the conceptual model proposed by Selfridge (1959. Pandemonium: A paradigm for learning. In Symposium on the mechanization of thought processes. )
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/pandemonium.html