Note that in the brain, there is a fair extent to which functions are mapped to physical areas -- this is why you can find out anything using fMRI, for example, and is the source of the famous sensory and motor homunculi (e.g. http://faculty.etsu.edu/currie/images/homunculus1.JPG).
There's plasticity but it's limited and operates over a timescale of days or weeks or more. The architecture seems to have a huge parallelism at the lower levels, but ties into a serial bottleneck at the very top, i.e. conscious, level(s) -- hence the need for attentional mechanisms. On Tuesday 01 April 2008 10:30:13 am, William Pearson wrote: > The resource allocation problem and why it needs to be solved first > > How much memory and processing power should you apply to the following things?: > > Visual Processing > Reasoning > Sound Processing > Seeing past experiences and how they apply to the current one > Searching for new ways of doing things > Applying each heuristic > etc... ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
