On Jun 1, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Mark Waser wrote:
Neurons are *NOT* simple. There are all sorts of physiological features that affect their behavior, etc. While I totally agree with your point about "Not only do you have to invent several new layers of abstraction, you also have to invent the control structures to manage all those abstractions and layers." -- as far as I'm concerned, ASSERTing clearly incorrect statements like "Neurons *are* simple" totally invalidates your credibility.
Neurons are structurally complex but computationally simple within the usual constraints of computational information theory. Only the latter matters since (presumably) no one is attempting to build actual neurons to get the job done.
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