On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, this is not a variant of the "analog is fundamentally different from
> digital category".
>
> Each of the things that I mentioned could be implemented digitally --
>  however, they are entirely new classes of things to consider and require a
> lot more data and processing.
>
> I find it very interesting that you can't even answer a straight yes-or-no
> question without resorting to obscuring BS and inventing strawmen.
>
> Are you actually claiming that neurotransmitter levels are irrelevant or are
> you implementing them?
>
> Are you claiming that leakage along the axons and dendrites is irrelevant or
> are you modeling it?
>

Mark, I think the point is that there should be a simple model that
produces the same capabilities as a neuron (or brain). Most of these
biological particulars are important for biological brain, but it
should be possible to engineer them away on computational substrate
when we have a high-level model of what they are actually for.

-- 
Vladimir Nesov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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