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Exactly, that's a much more elegant way of putting it. Simply removing components isn't a powerful enough technique to understand the meaning of the component.
by jfoutz 10y ago
Exactly, that's a much more elegant way of putting it. Simply removing components isn't a powerful enough technique to understand the meaning of the component.
- irascible 10y agoI don't really understand what "meaning" means in this context, and indeed for the brain itself. I could see some sort of classifI cation scheme.. like "this group of neurons maps many to few outputs".. these "amplify signals from the inputs", as something valuable.. and indeed it seems that training an ANN to answere questions about functional units would be a good Avenue to explore. But asking for what it means is pointless, and seems more like an ontological question, for which the only answers are things like "it means that vision works" or "it means that slight imbalances in dopamine don't kill the brain". I think trying to understand how it works isn't as important as duplicating these functions in hardware in order to produce an oracle.