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Re:Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make D... by IanCal on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:18AM (#11634144)
> Somehow that person's brain is doing a thing they may not have the symbolic knowledge to describe.

And we can draw roughly correct circles but most people don't know the equation for one. I'm not sure that's particularly significant though, but I may have missed your point.

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Re:Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make D... by Houshalter on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:14AM (#11634618)
No the ability to draw circles is impressive. The amount of math and calculations being done in the brain to perform such a feat is incredible. Programming robots to do even a limited range of the things humans do, is nearly impossible.
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