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Knowledgeable skeptics have been voicing concerns about neurons not being the right level of abstraction to look at for decades. See, most prominently, Chomsky,
by TaupeRanger 8y ago
Knowledgeable skeptics have been voicing concerns about neurons not being the right level of abstraction to look at for decades. See, most prominently, Chomsky, and by extension Gallistel.
- petermcneeley 8y agoHere is an analysis of Chomsky's opposition to forms of statistical reasoning. http://norvig.com/chomsky.html http://norvig.com/chomsky.html Im not familiar with Gallistel.
- gaurav_v 8y agoGallistel wrote a book 'Memory and the Computational Brain,' in which he argues that neural storage and computation via synaptic strengthening alone is implausible, and that the brain must have a real read/write memory. He points out that genetic material is an ideal substrate for such a capacity...