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"Anthony Bucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is body language a form of communication? Or indirectly, seeing a dog wag > > his tail as his master emerges from the store? And furthermore, does it seem > > that these events communicate something to everyone who observes them? A > > one-to-many relationship. Ed: People signs we call also a language. And if you can believe in evolution you know as well before we could talk we use hand, head, shoulders and more for signals. Do you remember that time? But a one-to many relationship, In a real brain? Have you ever seen a real brain with spiking neurons? And in the brain a cluster of neurons that work for body signals and for speech and writing both. They are called with a strange name transition neurons. It's an economic way of nature to use the same neurons for different outputs. Anthony: > That's all well and good. But a bit is a bit is a bit. If a computer > gets a digitized image of a dog -- just bits. If a computer receives a > digitized command from you -- just bits. It's all just bits. Yes exactly. look in the detail that is exact,. > Why is one > "seeing" and the other "hearing," beyond satisfying your desire to > anthropomorphize? Exactly Anthony. We mathematicians can make fantastic products and they surely function, but what has that do to with our own brain, and why is that necessary? I see it so, it works, fine, and what is then important. > > The storytelling is useful for intuitive leverage, maybe. But otherwise > -- what good is it? That's what I'm asking. > > As if I haven't polluted c.a.p. with enough of my babbling, I'm > crossposting this there, too. It feels relevant. > > Anthony > Thanks for this posting, Anthony. You look wider than most posters. And I certainly like that Ed
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