On Jun 7, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote:
But that is a world away from the idea that neurons, as they are, are as simple as transistors. I do not believe this was a simple misunderstanding on my part: the claim that neurons are as simple as transistors is an unsupportable one.
Richard, you reliably ignore what I actually write, selectively parsing it in some bizarre context that I don't recognize. There is a reading comprehension issue, or at the very least you don't follow what I consider to be the dead obvious theoretical implications. Metaphorically, you are arguing that the "latex sheet" model of gravitational curvature is stupid because astronomers have never seen latex in space, and then wonder why the physicists are giving you funny looks.
Are you arguing that the function that is a neuron is *not* an elementary operator for whatever computational model it is that describes the brain?
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