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Stephen Downes

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The bit by Freeman Dyson to start this video transcript is brief but rich; the discussion that follows is interesting but not to the same level as the introduction. "Our brains are spectacularly quick," says Dyson, "transforming two tasks essential to our survival: recognition of images in space, and recognition of patterns of sound in time." We do this, he says, by comparing maps. Strictly speaking, this is at best a metaphor - but I think it's a better metaphor than one based in linear digital processing, inference and reason.

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