On Thursday 04 September 2008, Mike Tintner wrote: > Bryan, > > How do you know the brain has a code? Why can't it be entirely > "impression-istic" - a system for literally forming, storing and > associating sensory impressions (including abstracted, simplified, > hierarchical impressions of other impressions)? > > 1). FWIW some comments from a cortically knowledgeable robotics > friend: > > "The issue mentioned below is a major factor for die-hard > card-carrying Turing-istas, and to me is also their greatest > stumbling-block. > > You called it a "code", but I see computation basically involves > setting up a "model" or "description" of something, but many people > think this is actually "synonomous" with the real-thing. It's not, > but many people are in denial about this. All models involves tons of > simplifying assumptions. > > EG, XXX is adamant that the visual cortex performs sparse-coded > [whatever that means] wavelet transforms, and not edge-detection. To > me, a wavelet transform is just "one" possible - and extremely > simplistic (meaning subject to myriad assumptions) - mathematical > description of how some cells in the VC appear to operate.
No, this is just a confusion of terminologies. I most certainly was not talking about 'code' in the sense of "sparse-coded wavelet transform". I'm talking about code in the sense of source code. Sorry. - Bryan ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/ Engineers: http://heybryan.org/exp.html irc.freenode.net #hplusroadmap ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
