Subject: Re: human versus spectral resolution From: "Richard F. Lyon" <DickLyon@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:02:09 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>At 9:24 PM -0400 4/2/08, Erik Larsen wrote: >if you don't set constraints on digital analysis, it can always >outperform a human on any task (assuming you can come up with a >smart enough algorithm). And a human shouldn't be able to do better >than theory predicts - unless the theory is wrong... But the theory is often wrong, so it's a useful question to ask. Dick