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Summarize Argument
Yang concludes that researchers should focus on brain function rather than structure to increase their chances of creating a workable thinking machine. This conclusion is based on an analogy with flying machines, and the fact that flying machines modeled on bird structures have never worked.
Notable Assumptions
Yang assumes that flying and thinking are similar enough for the analogy to work. If flying depends more on function whereas thinking depends on structure, then Yang’s argument makes little sense. Yang also assumes that not modeling a machine on something else's structure means that researchers can completely ignore that structure. But if structure tells us important information about function, then studying structure would be very important, even if the machine ends up using a different structure to fulfill the same function.
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