On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

> I thought so too, Pamela.  The discovery of specific spatial locations that 
> are associated with different components of intelligent thought process is 
> brand new science.

The phrenologists were trying to do it in the 19th century, but without much 
success! 

Seriously, it's the specific spatial locations that fascinate me. And he's 
saying intelligence is a kind of ensemble, but not necessarily Minsky-like, the 
society of mind.


"She instructed me as if out of bitter personal experience; she brooded along 
the edges of my childhood like someone living out a long Tennysonian regret."

        Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose"

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