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Does a series of matrix multiplications have a soul?
by baq 3y ago
Does a series of matrix multiplications have a soul?
- bheadmaster 3y agoDefine "soul".
- sirsinsalot 3y agoDoes a series of electrical impulses in a brain?
- amelius 3y agoObviously no, because signals take time to move from A to B, while humans live in the now.
- AYBABTME 3y agoMatrix multiplication is just an effective representation for the dense graph structures. The same graphs could be implemented in other ways (adjacency list, edge list), perform the same overall logic, without doing vector/matrix/tensor math. It seems like the magic is in the overall idea of neurons and networks of them following increasingly interesting architectures and training mechanisms. But because these graphs are mostly dense and involve numerical operations, matrices/tensors are a great implementation.
- VladimirGolovin 3y agoDoes a bunch of atoms arranged into proteins have a soul?
- paulmd 3y agodoes a SQL table provide a stochastic representation of conceptual symbolics? oh, sorry, I thought we were just asking questions