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I was speaking against reductionism but while we are there, as your examples alude to, counting neurons to determine sentience is like counting GHz to determine
by colordrops 5y ago
I was speaking against reductionism but while we are there, as your examples alude to, counting neurons to determine sentience is like counting GHz to determine computational power.
- michaelmrose 5y agoIt's really not. Frequency is nearly meaningless as you can have as many computational elements as you like operating at a given frequency meaning it tells you nearly nothing. It's like counting transistors which actually DOES work even if imperfectly.
- colordrops 5y agoBut neurons are like compitational elements. There are different sorts with different power. In fact some human neurons have features that no other neurons have.
- michaelmrose 5y agoThis is actually true of chips as well but there seems to be a fairly good correlation between number of elements and capability.