[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:34:25PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

> No, the man could still be completely ignorant of Chinese. Chinese is
> difficult, but you could probably get a patient idiot to carry out a

Your idiot has to be able to simulate a neuron by hand. That means
holding a lot of state, and doing billions of computations by hand
more or less accurately.

> simpler computation in his head following mechanical rules, but have

Let's drop the "in his head" requirement, because It's Just Not Possible.

> no idea what he was doing.

It would take a genius to figure out what he's doing. It would
be worse than an ant mapping New York.

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