How to Create a Mind - Book Review

Re:How to Create a Mind - Book Review by andrewtbham on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:17AM (#5331881)

I suppose I don't see a distinction between memory and pattern recognition. To me, memory is implied in the definition of pattern recognition. The definition of recognition is "the identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc." i.e. memory

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Re:How to Create a Mind - Book Review by fmoralesc on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:30AM (#5331974)

Not necessarily. If you have some stymulus like

> rrrrrrrtrrrrrryrrrrrurrrrirrrorrpr

you can recognize patterns in it even if you have never seen, heard, or known them before.

EDIT: of course this example is maybe too simple.

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Re:How to Create a Mind - Book Review by andrewtbham on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:53AM (#5332117)

i completely agree with that. that is what i am intending to convey.

the point of others and the author is that pattern recognition doesn't explain the mind because it doesn't account for memory. my point is that the term recognition obviously implies a mechanism for memory.

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Re:How to Create a Mind - Book Review by worfly on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:24PM (#5332799)

when i first read that, i thought it said mirror at the end.

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