Re: brute force and knowledge

[Vincent Diepeveen <diep@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:37 PM 12/1/98 +1300, Barry Phease wrote:
>Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
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>> 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.

So we're not SEARCHING parallel. that's what it is about. 

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

Not for the search we're doing. The receiving yes, but every neuron
i think does a different job, so it's not the case that we have
361 parallel neurons which try to match a pattern a at the same time
seen from that field.

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