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We have no idea how the human brain works but no one seems to care.
by HyperSane 3y ago
We have no idea how the human brain works but no one seems to care.
- ChatGTP 3y agoThe only ingesting things now are the machines, that’s where all the money goes now. We’re just “meat bags”.
- dang 3y agoCan you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? This is below the quality line for an interesting HN thread.
- edgefield 3y agoI’m pretty sure the field of neuroscience is focused on understanding how the brain works.
- HyperSane 3y agoHave we made any fundamental progress in understanding how the human brain works in the last 20 years? 50?
- famouswaffles 3y agoWe've made pretty good progress. But the same problem that plagues explainabilty of ANN's rears its ugly head in neuroscience. Low level descriptions provide shockingly little insight into high level behavior.
- Blammar 3y agoIssue there is the ability to trace out the brain networks accurately. We're getting closer. Once we're in the ~0.5 micron scanning range, things will get VERY interesting. I believe we've already mapped some invertebrate brain, maybe 250 neurons.
- andrewflnr 3y agoYes, but also your original question was about how much people care, so questioning the amount of progress is at best a weird tangent.
- HyperSane 3y agoI am genuinely curious. It doesn't seem like we have made the slightest progress in truly explaining how the human brain works or why we are sentient and self-aware.
- chaxor 3y agoDepends about on what you mean here. The good scientist mostly give up when trying to 'describe' higher level function (at best maybe generate some analytical expression which may correlate with IQ or something) and focus instead on biochemistry at the single neuron level. That's a very different science than trying to 'explain AI'.