[FRIAM] the arc of ai (was Re: Whew!)

glen ☣ gepropella at gmail.com
Mon May 8 15:21:43 EDT 2017


What if faster firing tightened a brain's coupling to its environment, rather than loosening it?  That would suggest that brains with fast neurons would be _less_ tolerant of ambiguity, not more.  One couldn't think deeply about anything because the environment would keep you locked in a kind of stimulus-response cage ... a slave of your own fast firing neurons.

On 05/08/2017 08:45 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> A fun fact that I ran across last week:   A superconducting neuron made of Josephson Junctions could be 7 orders of magnitude faster than those in the human central nervous system.  Being superconducting there would be no heat, and the possibility of deep 3d integration.  
> 
> Of course, lithography won't be adaptive unless it is way overbuilt and then trimmed-down.    That would be one data point in favor of the adaption being more important than deep skill.


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☣ glen




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