I note that the human brain seems to store declarative and procedural
knowledge separately and in somewhat different ways --- probably for
reasons related to those underlying our choice in Novamente.
knowledge separately (I'm not a neuroscience expert). I have however
seen good evidence that formation of declarative and procedural memories
involve different mechanisms. You can show this in mice by knocking out
parts of the hippocampus and observing how a mouse's learning is affected.
The neuroscientists doing this research believe that a number of learning
mechanisms are at work. They also show that when you knock one of them
out, the others can compensate, but the learning rate is much much slower.
Shane
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