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The Human Touch

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Zeichenerkennung durch biologische und technische Systeme / Pattern Recognition in Biological and Technical Systems

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It is not uncommon for the artificers of pattern-classifying machinery to feel envious of the ease with which human beings recognize the patterns that interest them; and it is tempting for the biologist, perplexed by the intricacies of our sensory machinery, to return the compliment by looking to the artificers for possible explanatory models. The piquancy of the situation is sharpened by those on the touchline who deride both the manifest weaknesses of existing automata and the ineptitude of drawing analogies from them to the workings of the brain [1].

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MacKay, D.M. (1971). The Human Touch. In: Grüsser, OJ., Klinke, R. (eds) Zeichenerkennung durch biologische und technische Systeme / Pattern Recognition in Biological and Technical Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65175-5_4

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