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Personally the best abstraction I've seen for how the brain works is a "pointer and cell machine" similar to how people introduce s-expressions. It works well w
by swiley 7y ago
Personally the best abstraction I've seen for how the brain works is a "pointer and cell machine" similar to how people introduce s-expressions. It works well with how I find myself thinking about lists (like the alphabet) where I have to "cdr" down it to find any of the items.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 7y agoCould you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the terms you use and I don't understand the parallel you're drawing when I look them up.
- inimino 7y agoA cell holds some datum (like "Q" and all its associations) and a pointer is something that can reference another cell, for example ("Q", <rest of alphabet after Q>) includes a pointer to the rest of the alphabet after "Q". This (datum <ptr to the rest>) pair is exactly the LISP list, usually written as s-expressions.