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> it has evolved to understand/predict our environment which seems way more complicated than our brain. Not a given.
by avgcorrection 3y ago
> it has evolved to understand/predict our environment which seems way more complicated than our brain.
Not a given.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoMaybe a bit early to be confident about it, but the more we see architecturally simple artificial neural nets able to perform tasks of human perception (speech, hearing, vision) and now language and primitive cognition, the less likely it seems that the brain is using a radically different or more complex approach to do these same things. Evolution appears (as one might logically expect) to act in localized incremental ways. The result is that our body+brain is more of a modular design than a monolithic intractably complex one. We seem to be well on the way to understanding how these cortical functions of perception and cognition are working and what types of representations are being used, so once we refine our understanding of the other major moving parts such as thalamus (and thalamo-cortical loop) and hippocampus, it seems we'll be well on the way to understanding the overall architecture.
- michaelmrose 3y agoIt is a given because the environment includes more than one fellow brain.
- avgcorrection 3y agoErr, wrong. For all practical purposes you comprehend a larger domain with less fidelity and accuracy than a subdomain.