What the brain's wiring looks like

Re:What the brain's wiring looks like by vinchuco on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:04PM (#14707438)

I remember hearing someone answer "if the brain was simple enough that we could understand it, it would be so simple that we wouldn't" to that question.

Can a computer compute itself?

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Re:What the brain's wiring looks like by dredmorbius on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:02AM (#14708443)

IC design is largely a process of simulating and specifying the next generation of integrated circuits.

So in the strict sense, not only can a computer compute itself, but it can compute its (more capable) successor generation.

Practically, this now occurs in large server farms, so it takes a large number of computers to compute themselves and/or progeny. But this is very much what happens.

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Re:What the brain's wiring looks like by booleandilemma on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:13PM (#14707709)

So we can only understand the brain because it is complex.

The brain may be the only object with this property.

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