3 ms·
I'm not at all experienced in neuroscience, but I think that humans and other animals primarily gain intelligence by learning from their sensory input.
by tripplyons 2y ago
I'm not at all experienced in neuroscience, but I think that humans and other animals primarily gain intelligence by learning from their sensory input.
- FergusArgyll 2y agoYou don't think a lot is encoded in genes from before we're born?
- aaronblohowiak 2y ago>a lot this is pretty vague. I certainly dont think a mastery of any concept invented in last thousand years would be considered encoded in genes though we would want or expect an AGI to be able to learn calculus for instance. In terms of "encoded in genes", I'd say most of what is asked or expected of AGI goes beyond what feral children (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child) were able to demonstrate.
- tripplyons 2y agoI don't disagree, but I think there is much more information encoded in the brain. I believe this phenomenon is called the genomic bottleneck. There are a few orders of magnitude more neural connections in a human than there are base pairs in a human genome. I would also assume that there are more than 4 possible ways for neural connections to be formed, while there are only 4 possible base pairs. Also, most genetic information corresponds to lower level functions.