> It seems a lot of applications boil down to some type of discriminator or pattern matcher This doesn't seem to imply that no learning is going on or that the

> It seems a lot of applications boil down to some type of discriminator or pattern matcher This doesn't seem to imply that no learning is going on or that there is some sort of simple process. If I ask you to say whether something is a cat or a dog, you are essentially functioning as a discriminator there - but there is still a lot of process that goes on behind that.