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The point is more that you can't abstract neurons away into a simple "analog in, digital out" pseudo-transistor with fixed connections and expect that to descri
by maaku 12y ago
The point is more that you can't abstract neurons away into a simple "analog in, digital out" pseudo-transistor with fixed connections and expect that to describe how the brain works. The brain makes active use of all those details you are abstracting away, in ways that would make your model's predictions differ from reality.
- Tenobrus 12y agoAre you saying there is literally nothing in the brain that can be abstracted away? This seems like a very bold claim.
- maaku 12y agoNo, absolutely not. I'm saying that a "neural net" a la McCulloch doesn't accurately model how computation is performed by the brain. You can't accurately model human thinking by recording the brain's connections as a classical neural net. That's all I'm saying.