Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:31:41 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: yes! Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:31:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <2ugqbjhvlh9vrlmqhciaubcf64dbooph0o@4ax.com> <06jvbjp36khao0m5ot65a1o1krricoasre@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 47 X-Trace: sv3-SAyZEdk5U6As0Yb2jr52oMtkdattBkxSbAcoqb+xiEA7rUnb9CxWefxsaxTS0iMiTBlepG7E64kFL+x!eeMNIeUSn/7aWvNdO9uAm0yEmtKyoXgvnhk1DJehCeDzCKAO31egxZiwY0vAHf/y4+lsZY6FGEXO!uiakQg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2662 On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:14:51 -0400, "Edward Rawde" wrote: >"john larkin" wrote in message news:dta1cj1f3pudq93ard2o2ve4dadero917e@4ax.com... >> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 06:26:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje >> wrote: >> >>>On a sunny day (Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:07:52 -0700) it happened john larkin >>> wrote in <06jvbjp36khao0m5ot65a1o1krricoasre@4ax.com>: >>> >>>>>> It's just code. >>>>> >>>>>Not any more it isn't. >>>> >>>>Those giant computer networks don't run code? >>>> >>>>>Your lack of understanding is a handicap. >>>> >>>>Your lack of imagination ditto. >>> >>>Well, there is a bit of your lack of understanding >> >> So you understand how brains work? > >Why is it necessary to understand how brains work? > >I don't know much about AlphaGo. >I doubt it can explain how it works. >But it obviously does work. > >> >> Where are images stored, > >Who cares? >Likely they are distributed throughout a brain in ways that it is not necessary for anyone or anything to understand. > Ignorance is appealing. But electronic design - our topic here - benefits from both imagination and understanding. I find it helpful, when designing things, to have a working model of how my brain works. What have you designed lately? Tell us about it.