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Kind of misleading when the video goes "this is not a program driving the robot" - of course it's a program. Just because they copied the interconnection struct
by anon4 12y ago
Kind of misleading when the video goes "this is not a program driving the robot" - of course it's a program. Just because they copied the interconnection structure of a worm brain doesn't make it not a program. It's simply very hard to reason about because it's structure and mode of computation isn't readily apparent, so we can think of it as the world's largest perl one-liner.
- wanderingstan 12y agoThe text can be given the more charitable interpretation that they mean "program" in the sense of "human created instructions." This is how the word is generally used. As this type of brain modeling becomes more widespread, we may have to make our language more precise to distinguish "programs" copied from brains vs "programs" written by brains!
- alexvr 12y agoI wasn't misled one bit. Why be so pedantic? Sure, you can call it a program, but in that sense you're also a program.