Re: Reproducing the original natural phenomena


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On Apr 4, 9:23 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
forbisga...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 4, 8:42 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't think I give the brain too many points for being digital.

E.g. see:

"Brain Communicates in Analog and Digital Modes Simultaneously"

-http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-04-12-04.all.html

Not even its main signalling system is fully digital.
Like I said, how stupid is that? No engineer in their
right mind would design such a system today, knowing
what we now know.

Thanks for the link. It was an interesting read.

I wonder if a genetic algorithm would hit upon such a
technique if it has the ability to do so.

If evolution can produce this kind of mess, genetic
algorithms ought to be able to too ;-)

Maybe the problem lies in our engineering tools.

Maybe - but at least they weren't designed by
a blind, clueless idiot.

It's hard to imagine that nature would get it so wrong

if there was an easily arrived at more optimal solution.

Hard to imagine that the blind, clueless idiot would
make a mistake? I don't seem to have too much
difficulty imagining that.

But if you are seriously looking for a rationale, for
the use of analog signalling, Ray Kurzweil suggests one
in TSIN. He says transistors operate "more efficiently" in
their native analog mode, and suggests we might want to
consider using analog mode transistors in our brain
simulations. I'm sure you can imagine my eyeballs
rolling upwards as I read this.

GF: He isn't the first. Carver Mead has talked about
using the linear portion of the curve for decades now.
(It's taken me a couple of weeks to remember his name.
I've been trying to introduce his name into the
conversation but couldn't remember it.)

Alpha: Mead is a certifiable genius! Those that roll their eyeballs at such
concepts/approaches are truly clueless.




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