computer-go: "automatically" [was: Pattern matching]

[John Aspinall <jga@xxxxxxx>]

At 6:27 PM -0700 11/11/99, Jeff Massung wrote:
> Question: when you smell a rose, does your brain do a search through 
> all smells you know until it finds a match? or is the proper neuron 
> stimulated automatically?
Question: when you smell a rose, does your brain do a search through 
all smells you know until it finds a match? or is the proper neuron 
stimulated magically?

Question: when you smell a rose, does your brain do a search through 
all smells you know until it finds a match? or is the proper neuron 
stimulated by the pixie behind your left ear?

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Suggestion: If you don't like search as a mechanism, propose another 
mechanism.  "Automatically" is not a mechanism, it's avoiding the 
question.