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The only claim I strongly disagree with is that "we will fully understand how the parallel system in the brains works". How can you be sure? If understanding is
by bdr 18y ago
The only claim I strongly disagree with is that "we will fully understand how the parallel system in the brains works". How can you be sure? If understanding is made of abstraction, what if the brain is computationally irreducible? Our understanding will increase of course, but at some point the "explanation" of some component will be equivalent to describing all the neurons in that component and their connections.
- jng 18y agoObviously we're discussing faith and intuition here, as none of us has the facts. I don't think there is anything computationally irreducible in the brain. About some component not being expressible as the result of simpler computations: that has to happen at some point, by definition. But that point is probably within the reach of our understanding. All in all, I don't think there is much magic, just lack of knowledge on our part. Of course, it's just my intuition.