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The thing with brains is that even if you understand all the building blocks, that really doesn't tell you much about how the brain actually works. Trying to un
by briga 9y ago
The thing with brains is that even if you understand all the building blocks, that really doesn't tell you much about how the brain actually works. Trying to understand the brain from neurons is like trying to understand Microsoft Word by looking at its machine code. Of course the brain has the added complexity that it isn't designed by humans, and so it's difficult to pinpoint where one region ends and another begins.
- topmonk 9y agoI disagree that is the reason we haven't understood the brain. If we could replicate the underlying process, we could attempt to simulate a brain and maybe successfully so, even if we don't understand why it works. The main problem seems to be that we actually don't understand all the building blocks, at least according to the article: > There are fundamental questions left unanswered: What information do neurons represent? How do neurons connect to achieve that? How are these representations learned? Until we figure out how and why connections are created between neurons, we only know how the brain responds to stimuli it has already learned, but not how it learns new information.
- golergka 9y ago> Trying to understand the brain from neurons is like trying to understand Microsoft Word by looking at its machine code. There's a series of articles by a guy who fixes bugs in an old game without source code, in plain assembly. (Unfortunately, it's in russian only.) https://habrahabr.ru/post/349296/ https://habrahabr.ru/post/349296/