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#1 2006-10-05 16:00:53

flashgordon
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Re: nice brain breakthrough

http://www.physorg.com/news79289076.html

actually, the fact that neorons act like binary switches doesn't seem new to me; i guess this work confirms it.

I like how the brain is compared to a social network; this is much like Marvin Minsky's 'society of mind' theory of the brain. The ganglia acting like a binary switch suggests to me that the two sides of the brain are much like two people talking to each other and analysing what each other is saying. Each side is much like a superorganism like ants solving problems from a mass distribution network and each side checking each others 'thoughts.'  Of course, all this with the prefrontal cortex doing some more digital calculations.

Ultimaitelly, it seems that the brain and consequently a.i. intelligence will be figured out soon enough.

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#2 2006-10-05 18:55:10

John Creighton
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Re: nice brain breakthrough

http://www.physorg.com/news79289076.html

actually, the fact that neorons act like binary switches doesn't seem new to me; i guess this work confirms it.

I like how the brain is compared to a social network; this is much like Marvin Minsky's 'society of mind' theory of the brain. The ganglia acting like a binary switch suggests to me that the two sides of the brain are much like two people talking to each other and analysing what each other is saying. Each side is much like a superorganism like ants solving problems from a mass distribution network and each side checking each others 'thoughts.'  Of course, all this with the prefrontal cortex doing some more digital calculations.

Ultimaitelly, it seems that the brain and consequently a.i. intelligence will be figured out soon enough.

I’d say that social networks are more loosely connected then the brain. The social network is like a brain simply because they are both networks. I see nothing to profound.


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