Ben Goertzel wrote:
But enough of that, let's get to the meat of it: Are you arguing that the
function that is a neuron is not an elementary operator for whatever
computational model describes the brain?
We don't know which "function that describes a neuron" we need to use --
are Izhikevich's nonlinear dynamics models of ion channels good
enough, or do we need to go deeper?
Also we don't know about the importance of extracellular charge
diffusion... computation/memory happening in the glial network ...
etc. ... phenomena which suggest that the neuron-functions are not the
only elementary operators at play in brain dynamics...
Lots of fun stuff still to be learned ;-)
Agreed.
And one can also question whether it is the neuron itself that is the
"elementary operator", or a neural cluster of some kind. Columns or
microcolumns could be the basic operators.
At the moment, my working model has these clusters playing the most
fundamental role, with all else below that level being just the
circuitry that implements the fundamental primitives.
Richard Loosemore
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