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Very cool indeed. It seems to extract information relative to images being directly perceived at the moment. I bet that accessing memories will be much harder t
by TelmoMenezes 15y ago
Very cool indeed. It seems to extract information relative to images being directly perceived at the moment. I bet that accessing memories will be much harder though, due to more complex encoding (as opposed to just reading the visual "input buffer").
- IvoDankolov 15y agoWe'll probably need the visual memories anyway, because the "input stream" tends to be a sprawling mess that only looks so good because the brain does some pretty awesome inference and pattern matching to construct a high quality scene. I'm not sure how far on the AI scale that would be.
- drunkpotato 15y agoIt will probably be harder, but not as much harder as you might think. Handling new complexity requires new brain structures, which in turn uses up energy that could be spent elsewhere. Other things being equal, the brain tends to re-use as much as it can. There is some evidence that the brain re-uses the same structures for visual memories as it does for visual processing. I wish I could quickly find you a reference. Richard Granger has some good articles on brain structures, and he is a very accessible writer. (For a start, Google for his paper "Engines of the Brain".) Of course, take the "brain re-uses useful structures" hypothesis with a grain of salt. There is some evidence in for some brain structures, but by no means conclusive.