Mind is analog, not digital
June 30, 2005 | Source: KurzweilAI
The mind works the way biological organisms do — as a dynamic continuum, cascading through shades of gray — says a new Cornell study, which found evidence that language comprehension is a continuous process.
The older models of language processing theorized that neural systems process words in a series of discrete stages. The alternative model suggests that sensory input is processed continuously, so that even partial linguistic input can start “the dynamic competition between simultaneously active representations.”