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Sorry, but this is untrue; action potentials in neurons have extremely complex interplay with each other, including residual “soft” periods and chemically-induc
by montereynack 3y ago
Sorry, but this is untrue; action potentials in neurons have extremely complex interplay with each other, including residual “soft” periods and chemically-induced changes in how they fire. Neurons don’t just “fire” or “not fire”, they adaptively change the strength of their firing constantly, unpredictably and continuously.
- RetroTechie 3y agoYes, and there's things like feedback / reflection, self-modifying like behaviour, lossy memory, emotional state, tiredness, aging, loads of drugs & hormones to influence the process, etc, etc. Buuuttt... it's possible that few if any of those things are needed to capture the essence of a brains' functionality. Maybe it's simply a matter of size. Maybe some configuration tweaks. Perhaps a different architecture. We simply don't know - yet.
- sublinear 3y ago> few if any of those things are needed to capture the essence of a brains' functionality I'm pretty sure all those things being dismissed are the essence of a brain.