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Re:We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment by matt4077 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @10:11AM (#14387381)
There's a saying in neurophysiology that predates neural nets: "Neurons that fire together, wire together". It's not exactly the same as back-propagation, but it's quite close.
Re:We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment by Balgair on Sunday May 21, 2017 @12:28PM (#14387951)
In fact, it's the exact opposite of back propagation. Long/Short Term Potentiation is all about the synaptic buton of the firing cell, not the receiving cell (or that mess of the astrocytes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_potentiation