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How would you be so confident that neuron is both the software and the hardware? Do we actually understand how we have cognition ? There is tremendous amount of
by nyrulez 8y ago
How would you be so confident that neuron is both the software and the hardware? Do we actually understand how we have cognition ? There is tremendous amount of electrical activity in the brain (and the entire nervous system). One could argue it's a low dimensional signal like an activor or a much higher abstraction like the software we run on our chips. Just because we use neural network like structures to generate activation weights, how does it follow that's how the brain works?
- neuromantik8086 8y agoFrom a former neuro person: The physical world is not an abstraction- it's material. If you talk to anyone with any reasonable level of knowledge about neuroscience, you aren't going to find anyone who finds the Cartesian dualism you're effectively proposing credible anymore. The only real philosophies that hold their own in the psych/neuro world are reductionism/materialism and biological naturalism. That and lesion studies / patients like H.M. have pretty effectively demonstrated that neurons have both processing and storage functions that aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
- neuromantik8086 8y agoIt's also worth pointing out that there are multiple types of neurons, so I suppose that you could argue that some of them are more "software-like" while others are more "hardware-like", as well as glial cells that essentially serve as dumb cabling (huge oversimplification). Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, for instance, are known to be more involved in muscle memory, although they still exhibit properties that are both hardware/software-like.
- cdelsolar 8y agowhat is an activor?