Posted by manualblock [ 24.45.24.101 ] on September 18, 2006 at 08:48:18:
In Reply to: Re: Breaking in New Drivers posted by Bob Brines on September 17, 2006 at 17:26:54:
How do you explain perfect pitch? No imprinting there but an individual can tell a perfect scale; what mechanism exists in the brain that allows for that?
I mean how are you born knowing the musical scale?
I ask as a general question of interest.
The brain as computor thing; the last artcle on brain chemistry I read resulted ina perplexed group of neuro-scientists who could not understand how information could be processed in one part of the brain when the neural connections were severed with anothewr part of the brain; yet the information was available in a part of the brain that had no connectivity. They tried calling it Neural intuition as part of a neural net. But they remain perplexed. As do I.
The pattern recognition is a theory that resolved from brain studies and was applied to the study of programmming algorythims; But that doesn't make the brain a computor; it makes certain aspects of thought to resemble computation. To say the brain is a computor is like saying the ruler is the distance. Or the backhoe is the building.
No dispute here; just speculation.
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