Re: CHAT: Parallelism

John Cowan wrote:

> Ed Heil wrote:
>
> > As I mentioned, according to the book _Wet Mind_ by Kosslyn & Koenig,
> > a popularized but still fairly intense, hardcore, and technical work
> > on neuroscience by two of the big names in the field, in the brain,
> > storage is *always* preferable to computation.
>
> This may be plausible for perception, but hardly for language.
> There are just too many possible sentences (though not, IMHO,
> more than a finite number of them; others disagree).  Even if we confine
> our attention to sentences which don't take more than five minutes
> to say, there are still far too many of them for us to dedicate
> even one neuron to each.
That's a tad disingenuous, John.  One doesn't have to say that every
possible sentence is stored individually to argue that where it is
*possible* to store rather than compute something, it will be stored
rather than computed.

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