Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us
by hackinthebochs on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:40AM
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This is probably not true. There have been experiments where faces have been reconstructed by measuring the neural responses of monkey's when seeing faces: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40131242
Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us
by carapace on Monday February 24, 2020 @03:21PM
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Wow, that's cool! Cheers!
I have to adjust me "priors", as a Bayesian might say. Still, monkeys aren't humans, and faces aren't London. Recognizing faces and their expressions has been a thing since faces first evolved, eh?
Re:There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us
by hackinthebochs on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:20PM
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Place cells have recently made the rounds in popular science which are basically the cognitive topological maps being discussed. The fidelity of these maps remain to be seen. Some examples:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14531
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08550-1
Sure! In fact, you could say that the eyes are the part of the brain that has a close isomorphism to (a tiny subset of the EM manifestation of) the real world. Once you get about 2-3 cm from the retinas, though, I think that information has been encoded in ways that make it unrecognizable from the outside. I'm saying I doubt we'll ever be able to decode a model (let alone a map) of London from studying a cab driver's hippocampus.