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A dispute over the attribution of priority for a neo-lamarckian mechanism is premature and unseemly, to say the least, and may help make science seem ridiculous.
A scheme for creating an international research centre seems to break new ground in the pattern of Soviet collaboration with the West, and deserves warm encouragement
The remarkable properties of some recent computer algorithms for neural networks seemed to promise a fresh approach to understanding the computational properties of the brain. Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.