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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: 100 Billion Neurons Nonsense
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 21:23:01 GMT
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In article <2uupb0$kc7@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
Todd Freeman <freeman@andrews.edu> wrote:
>Another point that should be brought up is that we still do not even
>understand the neuron itself let alone it's interactions. Just lately in
>Discover Magazine (forgot which issue) they had an article about the
>quantum mechanics of a neuron and its relationship to other neurons.
>Reading this article it is hard to think of a way to explain at all how
>neurons work...yaa sure signal in signal out with weights attached but
>it seems that neurons have dicision making capabilities internal to
>themselves which can decide other decisions not directly seen in the
>output of the neuron.
>Todd
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Yeah But: If a brain's function were governed by tiny random things that
caused much bigger things, (chaos theory), then you could bump into
somebody and change their religion!!! I don't think you can get "robust"
out of your principles of scale there!

In fact, I'd bet that the size of a synapse is just insurance and slop in
the logical certainty of a weighted value, and that it doesn't have to be
anywhere near that close. Otherwise your lousy diet could make you totally
insane!!!

Nawh, evolution is not a planning builder!!!
We are! We can soon do a MUCH better job than nature ever did!
-Steve Walz    rstevew@armory.com

