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Doesn't that assume the mind is blank slate to start? Don't you think its possible that the human brain has many important and hard won (over millions of years
by seiferteric 5y ago
Doesn't that assume the mind is blank slate to start? Don't you think its possible that the human brain has many important and hard won (over millions of years of evolution) hard-wired pieces that a blank slate NN can't easily learn?
- dmbaggett 5y agoIndeed, this possibility is the key underlying assumption of Chomskyan linguistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
- aaron-santos 5y ago"Huge neural nets" as the parent suggested tend to have hardwired architectures but randomly distributed parameters. Whether or not that is analogous to the human brain is anyone's guess and probably more of a philosophical question than a compu-biological one.
- seiferteric 5y agoThat is interesting, but just thinking, there are things that humans can do "out of the box" so to speak like face recognition and language acquisition and more.
- mrbbb 5y agoIs it possible that, rather than things becoming physically hard-wired into us, our ability to communicate and work together has gradually streamlined the learning process? Of course it stands to reason that we would physically change to adapt to our changing environments, and maybe a NN would be able to adapt at a greater rate.
- seiferteric 5y ago> our ability to communicate This is actually one of the most important things "hard-wired" into us that I am talking about! Language acquisition seems to be natural for humans, even if the languages are quite different.