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BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where Is the Engram?

Brain Inspired

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Symbols Are the Stuff of Computing

Before computing machines, symbols and representations were regarded as hand waves. Symbols are the material realization upon which computational operations operate. In an even better way of putting it, this became apparent in the book with adam king,. Thet these symbols carry forward in time information, in shannon's sense of the term. So that you can quantify, we you can state, l this physically realized thing is carrying this amount of information that's o so if you could wave aside all the fears about dualism and so on that tormented the behavior of people who thought they had to be more than one person - i would have been a very successful scientist.

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