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Ask HN: Suppose brains follow an optimization function what is that function?
- ksaj 8y agoI don't have expertise at all in that area, but I've always suspected something very similar to annealing is going on. Apparently through targeted brain scans, scientists can predict your responses a few moments before you even realize you have an answer because of the way the brain activity surfaces and synchronizes beforehand. I used to think of it as a sort of democratic mental process that is hidden from the conscious parts of your brain. But of course, I could be completely wrong, too.
- adrianh_589 8y agoNice new, is very interesting.
- pizza 8y agoMinimizing the error between predicted values of future sensory inputs and current outputs of sensors. Sensors defined here under the broadest-possible abstract umbrella definition of internally hooked-up source of information, such as; - am I currently feeling sad - did that thing that happened in that memory I am currently remembering really happen that way - the mental sensation of trying to regain one's train of thought