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accumulation. If they can all show it, a deduction would be 

 patently wrong if, without further data, it proceeded to indicate 

 some one of the class. 



What the deduction has shown is that we must give up our 

 naive conviction that the outstanding behavioural properties of 

 adaptation indicate some unique cerebral mechanism, or that they 

 will provide the unique explanation of the features of the living 

 brain. 'Many of these features cannot be related uniquely to the 

 processes of adaptation, for these processes can go on in systems 

 that lack those neurophysiological features, systems very different 

 from the living brain, such as the modern computer. Only further 

 information, beyond that assumed in this chapter, can take the 

 identification further. 



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