Re: [agi] The Advance of Neuroscience

2008-07-09 Thread Valentina Poletti
Could you specify what do you mean by synaptic response curve? If it is what I think it is it is far from linear, at least from the textbooks I read, so I am probably not following you. On 7/9/08, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, et al, When you look at the actual experiments

Re: [agi] The Advance of Neuroscience

2008-07-09 Thread Steve Richfield
Valentina, On 7/9/08, Valentina Poletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you specify what do you mean by synaptic response curve? If it is what I think it is it is far from linear, at least from the textbooks I read, so I am probably not following you. As I recall, the excitatory synapses

[agi] The Advance of Neuroscience

2008-07-08 Thread Mike Tintner
Tom Wolfe: Jose Delgado, [Jr] and also a neuroscientist, was interviewed recently and he said, The human brain is complex beyond anybody's imagining, let alone comprehension. He said, We are not a few miles down a long road; we are a few inches down the long road. Then he said, All the rest is

Re: [agi] The Advance of Neuroscience

2008-07-08 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, et al, When you look at the actual experiments upon which what we think we know is based, the information is SO thin that it is hard to come to any other rational conclusion. I could describe some of these, where for example a group of people spent a year putting electrodes into every one