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I just started reading Thousand Brain’s Theory, which is a really great book so far (recommended by Bill Gates) One thing it talks about is how the neo-cortex
by jonplackett 5y ago
I just started reading Thousand Brain’s Theory, which is a really great book so far (recommended by Bill Gates)
One thing it talks about is how the neo-cortex is basically the same all over. Even specialised bits still look the same as other bits that specialise in something completely different. The implication being that all ‘intelligence’ is basically the same thing. Seeing is hearing is poetry is tool use etc
I’m probably doing a crap job explaining it though so read it for yourself!
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54503521-a-thousand-brains https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54503521-a-thousand-b...
- xyzzyz 5y agoThis is consistent with the findings of positive manifold and singular g-factor from psychometry.
- eloisius 5y agoI don’t know anything about neuroscience so I’m just naval gazing out loud, but my grandpa always answered “the more synapse connections in your brain, the better. Don’t worry about when you will use this” when I whined about learning something. I suspect intelligence and knowledge acquisition is something like training layers in a neural net. Having pretrained edge detections and such is valuable even when the specific task is changed. There’s an underlying structure to most of the part of reality that we interface with.