On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:49:13 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:10:36 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> 
>>> This is basic child development stuff, sheesh..
>> 
>> Well, you may have a background in child development.  I don't. 
>> Sheesh.
>> 
>> Jim
> Actually, no I don't, but I read **a lot**, especially since, starting
> some 20 years ago, I had a fascination with AI, and the logical means to
> learn about why it didn't work well, once I found that, is to learn how
> the mind worked. My discovery was, sadly, that real brains don't work
> much better, they just have a more robust system of, "fill in the blanks
> and hope it works".

My point stands, you've read more about it than I do.  So your expressed 
"disdain" for what I said that you said was "basic child development 
stuff" really was misplaced, which kinda was my point.

Jim

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