Re: CHAT: Parallelism

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.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)