From: enrico.santoemma@gmail.com   
      
   > Your disillusionment mirrors some of the progress in the field.  As   
      
   Not really disillusionment. I started asking how to print hello world   
   in assembler, and found that I need infrastructures first.   
   After all, I was already convinced that the brain has a huge   
   infrastructure of automatic [1] reactions.   
   A few months ago, my son was about to sit on a chair, but he felt   
   something soft and immediately jumped up, thinking that it was our   
   cat.   
   Actually it was a soft pillow, but he conservatively reacted that way.   
   This is not difficult to explain, as fast intelligent reactions are   
   commons.   
   What is really hard to explain is why only he heard the pillow   
   screaming.   
      
   Sometimes it seems that a big part of the brain's job is to playback   
   memories, in a rush to predict the future.   
   Hence I believe that this kind of infrastructure is needed before   
   trying to implement simple intelligent jobs.   
      
   (btw, is this the right group to talk about implementing some brain's   
   behaviour?)   
      
   Enrico   
      
      
   [1] = not requiring the magic intelligence   
      
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