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A lot of people have replied to this, but in what way is a brain a neural network trained on old data? That does not make any sense at all.
by ouid 6y ago
A lot of people have replied to this, but in what way is a brain a neural network trained on old data? That does not make any sense at all.
- aspenmayer 6y agoYou inherited the DNA which built your brain from your parents. I believe they refer to the historical conditions which created selection pressures for your parents’ ancestors to survive rather than fail to live long enough to reproduce.
- ouid 6y agoDNA is not a neural network, (and neither is a brain, for that matter). The comment is still decidedly nonsensical.
- aspenmayer 6y agoDNA is not a neural network (that we know of), and I wasn’t meaning to imply it was. However, the actual neural networks (that is, meatspace neurons arranged in a live human brain) are tested simultaneously alongside the DNA and they succeed or fail to be propagated as a result of their fitness in the environment; the interaction between DNA, behavior, and acquired traits was once thought to be solely fiction, but it is actual science[1], though we don’t know much about how this works yet. The brain is as involved with your behavior and your DNA; I think that was the common thread in OP’s point. [1] https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(11)01341-9 https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(11)01341-9