On 2016-02-14 17:42, EdFromNH . wrote:
I heard the author of this book on a Dallas/Fort Worth NPR interview
show called "Think". In it he poo-pooed the importance of learning
the connectome, saying the connectome wasn't really important, that
what was important was learning the brain's algorithm.
It is stunningly dumb to minimize the importance of the connection
architecture of a neural net, particularly if you include connection
weights in the connectome [...]
It depends a bit on what you are trying to do. Most NN researchers left
biological
realism behind long ago when they adopted back propagation. No doubt
there are
some remaining secrets buried in the connectome - but the issue is the
time and
resources it will cost to find them that way - instead of via
reinvention. The physical
brain is quite a messy tangle; it's not too attractive a place to go
fishing for insights.
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