Re:Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architect...
by gnode on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:35AM
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> many different components of different structures
> yup, he is building a brain
The limbic system of the brain is made of many different structures. It handles much of the ancient fixed function instinctive operation of the brain -- heavily involved in sleep, reflexes, appetite, and motivation, for example.
However, our general intelligence and learning capability is mostly due to our neocortex, which has a highly regular structure. The neocortex also subsumes the roles of much of the limbic system as development progresses, overriding the specific structures.
This suggests to me that intelligence / learning doesn't benefit from specific structures, but from general structures, capable of encoding behaviour as data (by long-term potentiation of synaptic weights in the brain's case).
> yup, he is building a brain
The limbic system of the brain is made of many different structures. It handles much of the ancient fixed function instinctive operation of the brain -- heavily involved in sleep, reflexes, appetite, and motivation, for example.
However, our general intelligence and learning capability is mostly due to our neocortex, which has a highly regular structure. The neocortex also subsumes the roles of much of the limbic system as development progresses, overriding the specific structures.
This suggests to me that intelligence / learning doesn't benefit from specific structures, but from general structures, capable of encoding behaviour as data (by long-term potentiation of synaptic weights in the brain's case).