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Re:The CASA theory no longer applies to desktop computers by Legend2440 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @05:22PM (#38283448)
Your brain is a structure for learning structures.

It doesn't need to have a built-in module for recognizing faces; it wires up a face-recognition system on the fly, from visual data.

Re:The CASA theory no longer applies to desktop computers by anonymouskimmer on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:25PM (#38284342)
> Your brain is a structure for learning structures.

And it does so by having specialized structures.

> It doesn't need to have a built-in module for recognizing faces; it wires up a face-recognition system on the fly, from visual data.

Except it does appear to have such a special structure, the Fusiform Face Area. If it did not, people with prosopagnosia wouldn't just have problems with recognizing faces, but would have more general pattern recognition problems.