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Okay but you have to keep in mind that there are multiple waves, and what you might use them for. Think of how a sonar works. Sonars must associate and compare
by candiodari 8y ago
Okay but you have to keep in mind that there are multiple waves, and what you might use them for. Think of how a sonar works. Sonars must associate and compare the timing of events, just like neurons. They use as many different frequencies for that as possible (used to be 4-8 frequencies but the state of the art is presumably much more)
Let's say I have brainwaves at 0.5Hz, 4Hz, 8Hz and 20Hz wave. And let's assume they are all non-harmonic. If you have an event, and you can quickly inspect the position and phase of all these waves, you now have an extremely accurate and long-period reference for the time the event occurred (think of the individual waves as the numbers on a clock).
So the accuracy would be a decent multiple of the highest frequency, so let's say 20-50ms resolution. And the repeat is the multiple of all the wavelengths, so this would give neurons a trivial way to understand or plan events up to 640 seconds away from the current moment, as well as an easy way to refer to the exact moment a prediction will come true, and how different events relate to eachother in time.
It's brilliant.