Re: brute force and knowledge

[Barry Phease <barryp@xxxxxxxx>]

Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

> It is a wrong guess. A player isn't seeing thousands of moves, not to
> mention million of moves, or billion of moves (billions of braincells
> available). A player only sees a FEW positions, and thinks out a few
> lines, and definitely not done in parallel.
> 
> I don't have a split personality, not to mention splitting personality
> in billion of things at the same time, all doing the same!
> 
> Every neuron is doing a different and unique job.

This seems to me to contradict what you said earlier.  Every neuron is
doing a different job AT THE SAME TIME.  This is parallel processing. 
Of course we don't perceive it as parallel processing, as our brain
simulates a serial processor which is our conscious thinker.

Pattern matching in our brains is a highly parallel task, which is
almost comletely transparent to introspection.

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Barry Phease

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