From: Carol Tilley (tilley@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Sep 10 1999 - 00:50:17 MDT
From: Robert J. Bradbury
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 9:38 PM
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Patrick Wilken wrote:
> > VERDICT IS IN: BRAIN IS SERIAL IMAGE PROCESSOR
> > For such diverse tasks it is clear that the brain does operate in
> > parallel. But when it comes to tasks involving similar data items, the
> > brain appears to time-division multiplex, that is, focus its attention
> > on one object at a time so quickly that the conscious mind is not aware
> > of it.
>
> Oh, oh, I think this is Eliezer's, "unconscious congnition" raising
> its ugly head.
I don't know. I would assume you are referring to Wilken's endorsement of
Luck. However, the time-stamps (see above) acknowledge your uncanny ability
to reply to a post prior to its _conception_. <grin>
And here I had concluded that unconscious cognition might involve a
two-faced head whose axis lay on the border of parallel universes. And I
thought, perhaps, we could ask Tipler if we could use the hand-crank to
start up the cylinder again.
And they thought that 9999 was an indicator for at-risk computational
systems!
C. Tilley
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