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Subject: Re: On topic ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:56:11 02/18/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 08:07:16, Duncan Roberts wrote:

>On February 17, 2004 at 23:21:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 17, 2004 at 21:54:23, Duncan Roberts wrote:
>>
>>>would any chess programmers like to brain fingerprint a gm while playing chess
>>>to see how he makes his decisions ?
>>>
>>
>>Yes, but nobody knows how to do it.  Charting electrical activity doesn't say a
>>thing about how/what the brain is actually doing...
>>
>
>"What I can say definitively from a scientific standpoint, is that Jimmy Ray
>Slaughter's brain does not contain a record of some of the most salient details
>about the murder for which he's been convicted and sentenced to death," says Dr
>Farwell.
>
>
>if you can map electrical activity in brain to a physical event or man's
>perception of an event whether the murderer was in a room at a certain time.
>you should be able to map electrical activity of gm's brain to whether he a
>queen was at a5 in gm's mind when gm was searching for a move.
>
>this should be a start to give some answers to the question how do gm's choose
>their move.
>
>
>Duncan
>
>
>


Not quite.  If I recall this stuff correctly, the idea used was that it is
possible, by watching brain activity, to determine if a picture shown to the
person is "new" or "has been seen before".  That's hardly useful to determine
_how_ we play chess...  You might be able to determine that I have seen a
chessboard before, or, more refined, that I had seen the specific position you
showed me before, but you won't learn a thing about _how_ or _why_ I chose a
specific move.



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