"The article seems to confuse "processes" with "tasks". There are only 50 tasks that are SO active that the additional energy consumptions can be observed from afar, but who knows how many processes running, most of which required few resources at the moment the fMRI was made."
Similar thought to what I had... except I was thinking of the DNA doing algebraic calculations in each of the cells, which makes the post realtime memory storage and integration systems so massively parallel that you'd need a super super computer to compute the integration pathways and differences for the realtime functioning of the consciousness. The combat video game wouldn't be more taxing on the system, just the different context of the memory and more use of trained reflex actions tied to the action going on. The high level processes of the brain are coordinating the retrieval of context mode and maintaining it, while activating different coherency regions that might be used by that context mode. The OS level analogy is similar to the OS maintaining the partition of the programs and scheduling the access to resources like the memory or storage systems. All they did was notice which major pathways where in active usage, if you look up the major brain pathways in the recent science studies of the brain you'd see the major highways and they just looked in when they were active and said "wow" we can see them - genius On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Steve Richfield via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben, > > The article seems to confuse "processes" with "tasks". There are only 50 > tasks that are SO active that the additional energy consumptions can be > observed from afar, but who knows how many processes running, most of which > required few resources at the moment the fMRI was made. > > This is much like looking at the Processes tab on the Windows Task > Manager, and only seeing the ones that are consuming more than, say, 1% of > the CPU, which leaves only a small fraction of the "processes" - the ones > with active tasks to perform. You can bring up the Windows Task Manager by > doing a Ctrl-Alt-Del and selecting that option. Try it and you'll see what > I mean. > > Also note that testing was done with simple tasks. Now, let's see the same > fMRI test done while the test subject is in the middle of a combat video > game. > > So, I wouldn't bet anything on their count of 50 even having its decimal > point in the right place. > > Steve > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Interesting brain imaging analysis... >> >> >> http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532291/fmri-data-reveals-the-number-of-parallel-processes-running-in-the-brain/ >> >> >> >> -- >> Ben Goertzel, PhD >> http://goertzel.org >> >> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one >> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all >> progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> AGI >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: 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/303/10514698-9a8cda1e> | > 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
