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Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by mjburgess on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:30PM (#28700223)
the issue isn't brains

no algorithm running on a cpu can move a muscle --

it is precisely that movement is a spatiotemporal property which means no turing machine can realise it

movement isn't a symbolic operation

Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by gnramires on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:36PM (#28700300)
Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by PeterisP on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:18AM (#28704471)
I would go a step further and look at the research on medical devices for spinal-damage patients which try to literally control their existing muscles through a computer; the concept of neuroprosthesis and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_electrical_stimulat... working to design algorithms on CPU to move muscles, as the parent post words it.
Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by ineedasername on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:04PM (#28702052)
In this very narrow sense that you are defining, no brain can move a muscle either. All it can do is send signals. A computer can do the same.

If you are making a broader claim about the limits of hardware vs. wetware the you will need to clarify things a bit further.

Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by tsimionescu on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:15PM (#28700693)
This is such a strange claim to make, I can't even tell what you could have meant. We are surrounded by simplistic mechanical computations moving muscles , and have been for more than a hundred years, since the industrial revolution at least.