On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:56 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> You said: I don't see how mastery of the neuron will help anyone towards > AGI. > > It's called reverse engineering. I have a vague familiarity with reverse engineering, and I usually pay attention to what I say and write. I don't expect the neuron to be the whole story of intelligence, and in fact I won't be surprised at all if the brain proves to be incomprehensible in the same way gravity refuses to be unified with the standard model, or similar the "no hidden parameters" theorems of quantum physics or the unprovability theorems of mathematics, or better still with something completely new and exotic. > You have to start somewhere. I think it is fair to say that the majority here and everywhere decided not to start with reverse engineering of the brain. I started with epistemology, which gives me some "grounding". Most of us would not shy away from neuroscientific and psychological insights, but there do seem to be a lot of data points I have no use for, like the recent imaging technique for neural pathways that produced straight lines. I doubt there is any straight line in a modern ANN or semantic, or that there should be one. AT ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
