We need to use their power of computation directly, a hybrid model (evolving brain - digital computer) will solve many issues regarding in vivo monitoring
Dorian On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Steve Richfield <[email protected] > wrote: > Back around 1970 I heard about a researcher who had a couple hundred > pipette electrodes, all in parallel and affixed to a square plate, that was > pushed into a brain to read a couple hundred extracellular points in the > brain. Unfortunately, I don't remember enough about the reference to > exhibit it here. I remember hearing about this from William Calvin. > > Note that the equipment didn't then exist to record and analyze this many > parallel real-time inputs, so researchers had to switch their limited > monitoring equipment between electrodes. > > This would establish the rate of progress at approximately zero, and the > time to monitor the entire brain as infinite. > > Note that none of the past or present approaches to monitoring monitor > anything but voltage. There are various ions being bidirectionally moved > around to compute far more than can be seen by voltage alone, and these > remain beyond our "modern" technology to observe. > > Further, all present approaches to monitoring KILL some percentage of the > neurons that they seek to monitor. To scale, looking at an axon is a lot > like monitoring YOU by stabbing you with a telephone pole sized electrode. > Axons survive this better than people, but often all you monitor is the > last seconds of the death of the neuron. > > No, for these and other reasons I reject the idea that we are making ANY > significant progress in this area. > > Steve > ===================== > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:57 AM, tintner michael < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> "Out of a human brain's 100 billion neurons, researchers can presently >> monitor only about 200 at a time. This is sort of like trying to predict a >> presidential election by polling three people. " >> >> >> http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/world-wide-mind/201101/new-moores-law-neuroscience >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six > hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full > employment. > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/17795807-366cfa2a> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
