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Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic

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Re: Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic

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Would anyone here be able to offer some book suggestions for tackling AI from the neuroscience/ biological perspective, as opposed to the computer science/ computational perspective? I want to expand my horizons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence

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Some questions:

We act like stimuli are exact things but the brain is all about abstraction. In fact, a certain amount of entropy/information enters your beain every day from vision, smell, touch, etc. Its not stored in full fidelity. There arent enough nuerons or energy for that. So what is lost? Well...whatever isnt abstractable, right? You celebrate your birthday. You remember blowing out the cake in pristine vision. But how much of that 'movie reel' inside your head is actually a superposition of abstracted reality vs actual observed reality?

All Im asking is, is it even worth it to think of a human being in terms of absolute information when their memories are so sparse from reality. We remember whats important. And the things that are important, weve remembered to remember. But ultimately, the actual holding power of the brain is quite small. The brain is a master of deep abstraction from sparsity.

Is it like a quantum system? Where the superposition values of one subcortical system are flattened by another? So that a whole brain belief/memory is a function of the fuzzyness of each subsystem being exacted/wave function flattened by the heuristic correlation/connection between all the shitty data? I think we need to start thinking about sparsity. The universe is sparse when it comes to using 3d space. Holographic principle says physics is so symmetrical that we sparsely use 3d space. Such that our entire universe could take place on 2d space. Max Tegmark gave a talk about how deep learning works so well because of the sparsity of faces or music or voices, the overwhelming symmetry/redundance in physics and nature. And transitively, humans.

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Some questions: We act like stimuli are exact things but the brain is all about abstraction. In fact, a certain amount of entropy/information enters your beain every day from vision, smell, touch, etc. Its not stored in full fidelity. There arent enough nuerons or energy for that. So what is lost? Well...whatever isnt abstractable, right? You celebrate your birthday. You remember blowing out the cake in pristine visi…

> So what is lost? Well...whatever isnt abstractable, right?

Raises a most curious question.. what ever isnt abstractable?

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Would anyone here be able to offer some book suggestions for tackling AI from the neuroscience/ biological perspective, as opposed to the computer science/ computational perspective? I want to expand my horizons.

Wouldn't that be just "I", and the whole field of cognitive neuroscience?

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Would anyone here be able to offer some book suggestions for tackling AI from the neuroscience/ biological perspective, as opposed to the computer science/ computational perspective? I want to expand my horizons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence

I don't think anyone serious buys this version of the GUT. You'd be spending your time better reading Randy O'Reilly's work (CU Boulder). Or: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethinking_Innateness

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence

I don't think anyone serious buys this version of the GUT. You'd be spending your time better reading Randy O'Reilly's work (CU Boulder). Or: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethinking_Innateness

Or Gregory Bateson

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Some questions: We act like stimuli are exact things but the brain is all about abstraction. In fact, a certain amount of entropy/information enters your beain every day from vision, smell, touch, etc. Its not stored in full fidelity. There arent enough nuerons or energy for that. So what is lost? Well...whatever isnt abstractable, right? You celebrate your birthday. You remember blowing out the cake in pristine visi…

> So what is lost? Well...whatever isnt abstractable, right? Raises a most curious question.. what ever isnt abstractable?

We're just systems that transport our genes into the next generation. Our perception exists mostly to help us find food, avoid dangers and reproduce. Of course we lose a lot of information, because it is irrelevant to us.
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