[Bo] Was it Krimel who said that our thinking isn't binary but analogous? [Krimel] No, I said our thinking is analog not digital. Look it up. I am tired of explaining the basics to the uneducated.
[Bo] But what does he know about the inner workings of the brain? [Krimel] I know more than you and have provided frequent examples. [Bo] Our human thinking which is language conveyed presents its end product analogously but the processing itself, the storing of memory, may well be by some on/off - firing of signals/not firing - 1/0 means? [Krimel] This is just about exactly, what it, is NOT. Re-presentation, which is to say, memory, seems to involve efficiency in the patterns of neural firing. (Patterns... get it...) Processing seems to involve coordinated firing of multiple neural pathways. Most animals process sensation (input) in such a way as to produce behavior (output) that increases the probability of their survival into the next moment. They have a built in "sense" of probability. Along this dimension of: from this moment until the next... a colony of slime mold can only calculate from here to there or me to not me. It's useful. It increases the probability that the colony will survive. Beatles sing about I, me, mine; Here or there; hell, anywhere. One toke over the line and it's, I, me, mine. Neural networks, like our nervous systems, do not work according to algorhythmic rules. They do not move methodically from step to step; rung to rung... They jiggle, "til it feels right. They work according to: what works. They use what they just did to gauge their next move. As in chess, success is measured in terms of the number of moves into the future one can compute. Extension in time; that is, the duration backward and forward in time a system can use to decide what to do right frickin' NOW!; is a measure of consciousness. Living things are feedback loops. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
