Universal Computer

Famous quotes containing the words universal and/or computer:

    There isn’t any universal reason;
    And no one but a man would think there was.
    You don’t catch women trying to be Plato.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.
    Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)