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Letter: Not as we know us

Published 28 August 2013

From Ian MacDonald

Our brains are fed vast amounts of information through our senses, much as AIs are fed information from the internet. Our subconscious brain must process and filter this and relate it to prior input – as AIs do for Google or Amazon. It then deposits usable output into our conscious mind as “news headlines” which register as the thoughts, insights and ideas we need to run our lives and survive, procreate and progress.
Bath, Avon, UK

Issue no. 2932 published 31 August 2013

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