[comp.ai.digest] the brain

YLIKOSKI@FINFUN.BITNET (06/11/88)

Date: Fri, 10 Jun 88 02:31 EDT
From: YLIKOSKI%FINFUN.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:  the brain
To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU
X-Original-To:  @ailist, YLIKOSKI

In AIList Digest  V7  #5, Ken Laws writes:

>Are my actions fully determined by external context, my BDI state,
>and perhaps some random variables?  Yes, of course -- what else is there?

Don't forget the machinery which carries out yor actions - the brain,
the neurological engine.

Its way of operating seems to differ from person to person - think of
Einstein vs. a ballet primadonna.

Remember the structure of a typical expert system - in addition to the
rule base and the data there is the inference engine.

Antti Ylikoski