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As far as I know, we understand "wiring" of neurons, but we are probably missing "firmware" of neurons and that's the reason why real Flatworm is behaving diffe
by TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
As far as I know, we understand "wiring" of neurons, but we are probably missing "firmware" of neurons and that's the reason why real Flatworm is behaving differently from simulated Flatworm. It is not executing same program.
We can also ask if neurons can actually be simulated with current silicon based computer technology or if different type of computer is needed - Computer supporting operations from quantum physics? Chemical based computer where decisions and calculations are done by folding proteins?
- bookofjoe 4y agoI recently read a long essay by Stephen Wolfram in which he repeatedly suggested liquid-based computation as one possible way forward from current solid 3D substrates.
- sushid 4y agoI realize I'm an uninformed layperson possibly spewing nonsense but is there any way we can scan the real flatworms' neural output as they dig, move, etc. and then labeling the data to train ML models?
- baybal2 4y ago
- feet 4y agoThere is still circuitry that we don't fully understand, along with the role of glia in information processing and with mysteries surrounding the processing capabilities of synapses/receptors and neuronal oscillations. That's not even the half of it. There is so much in the way of biochemical pathways such as regulation of neurotransmitters and receptor and other protein trafficking and modification that the complexity is insanely difficult to comprehend. And I haven't even mentioned the neuroendocrine system.